DEFENDING
DEMOCRACY IN EXILE
Policy Responses to
Transnational Repression
“German Arrest of Top Aide to Rwandan Ex-President Raises Questions,”
JusticeInfo.net, August 16, 2016, https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/28797-germanarrest-of-top-aide-to-rwandan-ex-president-raises-questions.html.
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“Germany Faces Detained Aljazeera Journalist Ahmed Mansour,”
Middle East Eye, June 23, 2015, https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/
germany-frees-detained-al-jazeera-journalist-ahmed-mansour.
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“Chechen Asylum-Seeker Extradited From Germany Reported
Killed,” OC Media, August 26, 2020, https://oc-media.org/
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chechen-asylum-seeker-extradited-from-germany-reported-killed/; Svetlana
Gannushkina, “Why Are Residents of Russia Asking for Asylum in Europe?”
Memorial Human Rights Center, 2019, https://refugee.ru/wp-content/
uploads/2019/07/Why-Are-Residents-of-Russia-Asking-for-Asylumin-Europe.pdf.
Auswärtiges Amt [Federal Foreign Office], “Bericht der Bundesregierung
über ihre Menschenrechtspolitik,” [Federal Human Rights Policy], 2020,
Sections 73 and 74, https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/blob/2422192/
f01891c5efa5d6d89df7a5693eab5c9a/201202-mrb-14-download-data.pdf.
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Learn more about transnational repression and view the full report online
by visiting www.freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression.
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