Egypt In July 2019, the Kuwait authorities deported eight men from Kuwait to Egypt: Hossam Ibrahim al-Adl, Abdel Rahman Mohamed Ahmed, Abu-Bakr Atef al-Fayiomi, Abdel Rahman Ibrahim Abdel Moniem, Walid Suleiman, Najeh Awad, Faleh Hassan, and Mo’men Abu AlWafa. The Kuwait authorities claimed that the men were being sought by the Egyptian authorities for alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed opposition group. Human Rights Watch raised concerns that the men faced serious risk of torture and persecution in Egypt, as well as unlawful detention conditions. The Kuwait authorities later confirmed the involvement of the Egyptian authorities, stating that they had worked in cooperation with the Egyptian authorities. Kazakhstan In 2012, activist Murat Tungishbaev fled Kazakhstan when his reporting on the 2011 oil strikes resulted in a summons by Kazakh security services. Human Rights Watch documented allegations of ill-treatment and torture of people arrested during those strikes, as well as an increasing crackdown on journalists and media outlets who reported on the strikes. After fleeing Kazakhstan, Tungishbaev lived in exile in Kyrgyzstan where he sought asylum and worked for an opposition television channel. In June 2018, he was extradited to Kazakhstan at the request of the Kazakh authorities. In Kazakhstan he was subsequently tried and convicted on charges related to “extremism.” The Kyrgyz authorities cooperated in extraditing him despite his outstanding asylum claim, and did not allow him to appeal his extradition. Tajikistan Many of the Tajik targets of transnational repression Human Rights Watch spoke to were living in Türkiye. In February 2018, Namunjon Sharipov, a member of the IRPT in Türkiye, was taken into custody by Tajik consular officials in Istanbul and forcibly returned to Tajikistan. He was forcibly disappeared in Tajikistan as his whereabouts were kept secret and he was compelled to make public statements declaring that he had returned voluntarily. Later in 2018, two more Tajik opposition members, Suhrob Zafar and Nasimjon Sharipov (no relation to Namunjon Sharipov), were also detained in Istanbul. The Turkish police had detained them upon the request of the Tajik authorities, but their whereabouts since being arrested have been concealed. The men remain forcibly disappeared. “WE WILL FIND YOU” 12