Lawfare Archive: Transnational Repression: Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach
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🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
From February 5, 2021: Some countries don't just abuse their citizens within their own borders; increasingly, they target individuals after they have gone abroad. A range of nefarious acts play a role here, and together they make up a phenomenon called transnational repression.
Nate Schenkkan, the director of research strategy at Freedom House, and Isabel Linzer, Freedom House's research analyst for technology and democracy, are the two authors of "Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach: Understanding Transnational Repression," a new report detailing the practice and Freedom House's research on the topic. David Priess sat down with them to discuss the variety of forms transnational repression can take; whom is targeted and why; examples from the governments of Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Rwanda, and even Equatorial Guinea; and recommendations to buck this growing trend.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for October 22, 2022. |
| 0:45.4 | A little over a month ago, protests erupted in Iran over the arrest and subsequent death |
| 0:49.8 | of Maasa Amini by the Iranian guidance patrol or religious morality police. |
| 0:55.1 | Additional concerns were raised last week after an Iranian climber, El Nazir Khabi, |
| 0:59.9 | competed in South Korea without wearing her hijab, which ultimately prompted discussions |
| 1:04.7 | among members of the national security community about how government actions and policies |
| 1:09.2 | have impacts far outside their nation's borders. |
| 1:12.4 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from 2021. |
| 1:16.6 | In the episode, David Pries sat down with Nate Shankin, the director of research strategy |
| 1:20.8 | at Freedom House and Isabel Linser, a research analyst for technology and democracy at Freedom |
| 1:26.0 | House to discuss transnational repression, the variety of forms it can take, who repressive |
| 1:31.3 | governments target and why, recommendations on how to buck the growing trying to transnational |
| 1:36.2 | repression and more. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm David Pries and this is the LawFair podcast, February 5, 2021. |
| 1:47.0 | Some countries don't just abuse their citizens within their own borders, increasingly they |
| 1:51.6 | target individuals after they've gone abroad. |
| 1:55.3 | A range of nefarious acts play a role here, and together they make up a phenomenon called |
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