DEFENDING DEMOCRACY IN EXILE Policy Responses to Transnational Repression Recommendations for the Ukrainian government: 8 • Identify and document transnational repression as a distinct problem, including in reports on origin country conditions that are used by the State Migration Service to assess asylum applications. • Prevent extrajudicial returns of migrants by ensuring that all individuals facing expulsion or deportation receive due process, access to legal help, and an opportunity to appeal for judicial review. • Raise awareness of transnational repression within the government. Develop trainings about the threat of transnational repression for members of the National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine. • Review procedures for arrest and extradition of individuals who are detained as a result of notices issued through Interpol. • Review established channels of security cooperation to ensure that Ukrainian institutions and agencies are not co-opted by authoritarian states seeking to target individuals in Ukraine. The country’s continued participation in the Minsk Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, and Criminal Matters—and the Security Service of Ukraine’s practices of informal cooperation with the security services of other post-Soviet states— should be carefully examined. • Ensure that migration policies do not inadvertently facilitate the targeting of vulnerable individuals. Consider limiting the involvement of the security services in the screening of asylum seekers. @FreedomHouse #TransnationalRepression