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This chart includes only origin states that engage in physical transnational repression. Tactic refers to incident targeting origin state’s nationals abroad.
government, authorities announced that they had achieved
his return through “an international arrest warrant,” only for
the authorities in the United Arab Emirates to deny that they
had cooperated in the return.37 In a separate effort, Chinese
authorities broadcast a television show about their successes
working with other countries to bring accused individuals back
from abroad as part of its transnational anticorruption drive.
The international police notification system Interpol deserves
special attention as a tool of co-optation because of its
relative accessibility, and because it can be poorly understood
even among the immigration and law enforcement bodies
that use it. Contrary to its popular image, Interpol is an
intergovernmental organization that helps police departments
worldwide cooperate with each other to combat
transnational crime; it does not carry out its own operations
or issue its own arrest warrants.38 The organization’s limited
functions include allowing member states to request a “Red
Notice” that law enforcement agencies in another state
extradite a wanted person; to share alerts about missing
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