Foreign countries are helping autocracies repress exiled dissidents in return for economic gain

By Rebecca Cordell, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Kashmiri Medhi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas

Governments, even democratic ones, are willing to aid autocracies in silencing exiled dissidents if the host nation thinks it’s in its economic interest.

That is what we found when looking into cases of transnational repression – the act of governments reaching across their national border to repress diasporas and exiles – from 2014 to 2020.

Since 2014, international watchdog Freedom…

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