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Freedom House’s transnational repression database is available by request
through the research@freedomhouse.org email account. Please use the
subject line “Transnational Repression Data Request.”
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“Ukraine: Transnational Repression Host Country Case Study,” in Yana
Gorokhovskaia and Isabel Linzer, Defending Democracy in Exile, Freedom
House, June 2022, https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/
ukraine.
“Turkey: Transnational Repression Origin Country Case Study,” in Nate
Schenkkan and Isabel Linzer, Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach, Freedom House,
February 2021, https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/
turkey.
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Reid Standish, “He Fled from Chinese Camps. Now He’s Escaping Russia’s War
in Ukraine,” RFE/RL, March 3, 2022, https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-xinjiangrefugee-russian-invasion/31734798.html.
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Catherine Putz, “Ethnic Kazakh From Xinjiang Detained in Europe, Again,” The
Diplomat, July 15, 2022, https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/ethnic-kazakh-fromxinjiang-detained-in-europe-again/?fbclid=IwAR0swXfqGdLdevw4XlFN6xXSItGh
1bswayxiQlAd3_p_-7Wd4PtL8RLGcns.
“Former Turkish Police Chief’s Car Vandalized in Sweden after proErdoğan Daily Targets Him,” Turkish Minute, November 4, 2022, https://
www.turkishminute.com/2022/11/04/chiefs-car-vandalized-in-sweden-afterpro-erdogan-daily-targets-him/; Jan Majlard, “Efter överfallet: ”Känner
mig inte säker i Sverige [After the assault: ‘I don’t feel safe in Sweden’],”
Svenska Dagbladet, November 9, 2022, https://www.svd.se/a/5BE7dz/turkiskejournalisten-ahmet-donmez-kanner-mig-inte-saker-i-sverige.
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“Factbox: Where have Russians been fleeing to since mobilisation began?”
Reuters, October 6, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/where-haverussians-been-fleeing-since-mobilisation-began-2022-10-06/.
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MENA Rights Group, “Djiboutian National Arreh Soulemain Aouled Released
after Being Detained in Somaliland for over Two Months for Criticising
Djibouti’s President,” updated July 28, 2022, https://menarights.org/en/case/
arreh-souleiman-aouled.
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Bagdat Asylbek and Asemgul Mukhitkyzy, “‘Izvinite, eto vse Rossiya.’
Buryatskaya zhurnalistka rasskazala o svoem zaderzhanii v Almaty [Sorry, it’s
all Russia. Buryat Journalist Tells of Her Detention in Almaty],” Radio Azattyk,
November 3, 2022, https://rus.azattyq.org/a/32113357.html.
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“Kazakhstan Reportedly Returns Former Presidential Guard to Russia,”
The Moscow Times, December 30, 2022, https://www.themoscowtimes.
com/2022/12/30/kazakhstan-reportedly-returns-former-presidential-guard-torussia-a79851.
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Liudas Dapkus, “Baltics Say No Automatic Asylum for Russians Fleeing Draft,”
AP, September 22, 2022, https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putinestonia-latvia-3e5efaf7e912d23b97d031fb6036937a.
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“Fear And Outrage in Pamir: Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Reeling From
Brutal State Crackdown,” RFE/RL, June 22, 2022, https://www.rferl.org/a/
tajikistan-gorno-badakhshan-brutal-crackdown/31910506.html.
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Mirzonabi Holikzod, “V Dushanbe grazhdanskogo aktivista Ramzi Vazirbekova
prigovorili k 13 godam kolonii [In Dushanbe civic activist Ramzi Vazirbekov was
sentenced to 13 years in prison],” Radio Ozodi, November 8, 2022, https://rus.
ozodi.org/a/32120926.html.
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“Tajikistan: Illegally Deported Pamiri Leader Gets 18 Years in Prison,”
Eurasianet, May 4, 2022, https://eurasianet.org/tajikistan-illegally-deportedpamiri-leader-gets-18-years-in-prison.
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Maya Guseva, “Kak vtorzheniye v Ukrainy izmenilo migratsiyu v Rossiyu i
ekonomiky stran Tsentral’noi Azii. Data-issledovaniye Nastoyashchego Vremeni
[How the invasion of Ukraine changed migration to Russian and the economies
of Central Asian countries. Nastoyashchee Vremya Data-Research],”
Nastoyaschchee Vremya, February 1, 2023, https://rus.ozodi.org/a/data-storymigration-ru-ca/32251233.html.
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“Russian parliament votes to break with European Court of Human Rights,”
Reuters, June 7, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russianparliament-votes-exit-european-court-human-rights-2022-06-07/.
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“Somaliland: Firebrand Djiboutian Critic Jailed by Authorities,” Somaliland
Current, May 21, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20220630094915/https://
www.somalilandcurrent.com/somaliland-firebrand-djiboutian-critic-jailed-byauthorities/.
“Amnistía Internacional califica como ‘persecución’ la expulsion de Bolivia
del cubano Magdiel Jorge Castro [Amnesty International describes the
expulsion of Cuban Magdiel Jorge Castro from Bolivia as ‘persecution’],”
Diario de Cuba, December 21, 2022, https://diariodecuba.com/derechoshumanos/1671583135_44159.html.
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“The Struggles of Exiled Pakistan Journalist Syed Fawad Ali Shah,” Breaking
Asia, March 18, 2021, https://www.breakingasia.com/360/the-struggles-of-exiledpakistan-journalist-syed-fawad-ali-shah/.
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Liam Scott, “Wife Still Seeking Answers 5 Months After Pakistani Journalist
Disappears,” VOA, January 21, 2023, https://www.voanews.com/a/wife-stillseeking-answers-5-months-after-pakistani-journalist-disappears-/6926321.html.
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Safeguard Defenders, “Patrol and Persuade: A Follow-up Investigation to 110
Overseas,” December 5, 2022, https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/patroland-persuade-follow-110-overseas-investigation.
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Hansard, “Overseas Chinese Police Stations in UK: Legal Status,”
Volume 721, November 1, 2022, https://hansard.parliament.uk/
Commons/2022-11-01/debates/997662A6-CD71-41C5-BBE9-.33FADDB4B974/
OverseasChinesePoliceStationsInUKLegalStatus.
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“United Kingdom: Transnational Repression Host Country Case Study,” in
Yana Gorokhovskaia and Isabel Linzer, Defending Democracy in Exile, Freedom
House, June 2022, https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/
united-kingdom.
George Bowden and Tessa Wong, “I Was Dragged into China Consulate,
Protester Bob Chan Says,” BBC, October 20, 2022, https://www.bbc.com/
news/world-asia-china-63318285; “UK Police Identify Offences Committed
in Chinese Consulate Incident,” Reuters, November 21, 2022, https://www.
reuters.com/world/uk-police-identify-offences-committed-chinese-consulateincident-2022-11-21/.
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