Freedom House This chart includes the 36 countries that engage in physical forms of transnational repression. Tactic refers to incident targeting origin state’s nationals abroad. for participating in postelection protests. They faced charges of planning a coup against Lukashenka’s government.15 Belarus was not the only authoritarian state that received Russian assistance in its hunt for dissidents. In March 2021, Russian authorities rescinded the Russian citizenship of a Tajikistani human rights defender, Izzat Amon, and expelled him from the country. He had lived in Russia for more than 20 years, running a nonprofit organization in Moscow that helped migrants from Central Asia find employment, register their residency, and receive legal advice. According to Russian officials, he was deported for violating migration regulations.16 Despite the fact that Tajikistani officials did not make a formal request for the activist to be extradited from Russia to face criminal charges, he was quickly tried and imprisoned in Most acts of transnational repression are undertaken through co-optation of or cooperation with authorities in the host country. freedomhouse.org 5