DEFENDING
DEMOCRACY IN EXILE
Policy Responses to
Transnational Repression
Department of Justice, “Justice Manual: Provisional Arrests and International
Extradition Requests -Red, Blue, or Green Notices,” https://www.justice.gov/jm/
organization-and-functions-manual-3-provisional-arrests-and-internationalextradition-requests.
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Red R. Bromund and Jonathan Reich, “Abuse of Interpol for Transnational
Repression, Assessing the FY22 NDAA’s Provisions for Prevention,”
Just Security, November 10, 2021, https://www.justsecurity.org/79161/
abuse-of-INTERPOL-for-transnational-repression-assessing-the-fy22-ndaasprovisions-for-prevention/.
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Josh Jacobs, “Has Interpol become the long arm of
oppressive regime?” The Guardian, October 17, 2021, https://
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/17/
has-INTERPOL-become-the-long-arm-of-oppressive-regimes.
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Natasha Bertrand, “He fought corruption in Russia. ICE wants to deport
him,” Politico, September 3, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/03/
gregory-duralev-ice-deportation-408607.
Nate Schenkkan, Annie Wilcox Boyajian, and Isabel Linzer,
“The ‘Khashoggi Ban’: What It Does and Doesn’t Mean,” Just
Security, March 3, 2021, https://www.justsecurity.org/75117/
the-khashoggi-ban-and-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean/.
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Press Statement, Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of
State, “Promoting Accountability for Transnational Repression Committed by
People’s Republic of China (PRC) Officials,” March 21, 2022, https://www.state.
gov/promoting-accountability-for-transnational-repression-committed-bypeoples-republic-of-china-prc-officials/#.YjnfYC5xtik.twitter; Press Statement,
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State, “Promoting
Accountability for Translational Repression of Belarusian Athletes Abroad,”
February 3, 2022, https://www.state.gov/promoting-accountability-fortransnational-repression-of-belarusian-athletes-abroad/.
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Freedom House interview, February 2022.
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U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review,
Board of Immigration Appeals, “Matter of W-E-R-B-, Respondent,” 27 I&N
Dec, 795 (BIA 2020), Interim Decision #3979, https://www.justice.gov/eoir/
page/file/1256481/download#:~:text=In%20a%20decision%20dated%20
August,10%2C%201984%2C%20G.A.%20Res.
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U.S. Department of State, Press Statement, Antony J. Blinken,
“Accountability for the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi,” February 26, 2021,
https://www.state.gov/accountability-for-the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi/
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Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes and Michael LaForgia, “Saudi Operatives
Who Killed Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in U.S.,” The New York
Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/us/politics/khashoggisaudi-kill-team-us-training.html.
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Mathew Lee, “US approves major arms sale to Egypt despite rights
concerns,” ABC News, January 25, 2022, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/
wireStory/us-approves-major-arms-sale-egypt-rights-concerns-82476315.
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Freedom House interview, February 2022.
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