#transnational repression

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Life-Sentenced Journalists Show the World (and Pakistan) How to Think About Human Rights Abuse, Lawfare

Continue reading Life-Sentenced Journalists Show the World (and Pakistan) How to Think About Human Rights Abuse, Lawfare

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Human Rights Organizations Urge American and Australian Governments to Address Transnational Repression During Quad Meeting

As organizations dedicated to fighting for justice, equality, and human rights around the world, we call on President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to publicly and privately raise concerns about the increasing  pattern of transnational repression from the Indian government when they meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during this weekend’s Quad Summit. Biden and Albanese must make clear that any security relationship cannot come at the expense of the security and rights of Americans, Australians, and Indians. Learn Full Story- https://www.hindusforhumanrights.org/en/blog/human-rights-organizations-urge-american-and-australian-governments-to-address-transnational-repression-during-quad-meeting

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Opinion | They opened the door. The dictators were waiting. — The Washington Post

Reaching far beyond their borders, dictators are dispatching assassins, kidnappers and investigators to target dissidents, journalists, acad

“Around the world, dictators are dispatching assassins, kidnappers, secret police and private investigators to abduct, harass, intimidate and harm dissidents, journalists, academics and others far beyond their borders. Transnational repression, as it is called, is spreading faster than democracies can cope with it. As Freedom House noted in a landmark study 2½ years ago, dictatorships struck back at activists and journalists who were using the internet to campaign for human rights from afar. The authoritarian regimes learned to respond in the same way, through spyware and online harassment, and have taken their campaigns a major step further, with surveillance, threats, disruption, kidnapping and violence.”

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Transnational Repression Series II: The Long Arm of Authoritarianism

Webinar | In the second series of this webinar, Orion Policy Institute brought together experts who presented their work and discussed the current trends and methods of transnational repression.

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The Africans in exile who live in fear of transnational repression

This opinion piece was written by Isabel Linzer. It was published by Mail and Guardian on 4 February 2021.

Just over six years ago headlines were filled with reports about the murder of Patrick Karegeya, former head of Rwandan intelligence, in a Johannesburg hotel room. Almost immediately, suspicion turned to Rwandan president Paul Kagame.

Since then, Rwandans around the world have been abducted, targeted with spyware, detained, assaulted, and seen their loved ones harmed. While high-profile attacks such as the one against Karegeya, the multiple assassination attempts against Lieutenant General Kayumba Nyamwasa, and the recent abduction of Paul Rusesabagina in the United Arab Emirates garner significant attention, the broader pattern has often gone overlooked. 

Rwanda’s campaign against exiles abroad is not the only one in sub-Saharan Africa; what may appear to be isolated incidents are actually part of a growing global trend of “transnational repression.” This phenomenon refers to governments targeting nationals of their countries even after they have fled to safety abroad. [Read more here.]