{"id":6125,"date":"2021-09-19T01:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2021-09-19T01:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:54:32","slug":"oppressive-regimes-reach-beyond-their-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6125","title":{"rendered":"Oppressive Regimes Reach Beyond Their Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“”In countries like Vietnam and Australia, Chinese agents have simply abducted their prey, whether the targets were dissidents or people accused of corruption,” ProPublica reported<\/a> after its own investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While “China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world,” according to Freedom House, it’s hardly alone. Russia’s overseas effort “accounts for 7 of 26 assassinations or assassination attempts since 2014, as catalogued in Freedom House’s global survey”; former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted in the United Kingdom in 2018<\/a> in an attack that resulted in the death of a local woman. Saudi Arabia’s government plotted what a UN special rapporteur described as “a premeditated extrajudicial execution<\/a>” of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. Turkey, in turn, has developed a reputation for leaning on other governments “to hand over individuals without due process, or with a slight fig leaf of legality,” in the words of the report.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oppressive Regimes Reach Beyond Their Borders<\/a><\/blockquote>