Repressive countries have more success in co-opting support to silence overseas critics with governments they trade with.
Governments, even democratic ones, are willing to aid autocracies in silencing exiled dissidents if the host nation thinks it’s in its economic interest.
The most frequent offenders were autocratic countries such as China , Turkey , Egypt , Tajikistan , Russia and Uzbekistan . Meanwhile, autocratic countries were most successful in securing cooperation among foreign countries with a weak rule of law. Using Freedom House’s database, we tracked 608 cases of direct government cooperation in transnational repression. We focused specifically on detentions, renditions without legal representation, and unlawful deportations, but we excluded cases such as assassinations where host countries weren’t directly involved.
Why it matters Our findings suggest that many countries are willing to sacrifice the civil liberties of foreign dissidents for economic opportunities with authoritarian governments. Autocracies also appear to be strategically targeting vulnerable states with weak rule of law institutions, such as the police, courts or immigration authorities.
What still isn’t known It is difficult to know the full scale of transnational repression. Data measuring transnational repression is able to capture only the “tip of the iceberg,” as Freedom House has put it.
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