China is increasingly barring people from leaving the country, including foreign executives as the authorities say the country is open for business after three years of tight COVID-19 restrictions. According to a new report by the rights group Safeguard Defenders, scores of Chinese and foreigners have been ensnared by exit bans.

“Since Xi Jinping took power in 2012, China has expanded the legal landscape for exit bans and increasingly used them, sometimes outside legal justification,” the Safeguard Defenders report reads.