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A total of 25 countries’ governments were responsible for 125 incidents of physical transnational repression last year, including the first documented cases perpetrated by the governments of Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, and Yemen.

Authoritarian governments are using dangerous tools to intimidate international students, visiting scholars, and faculty on American campuses. Chinese authorities are the single greatest threat to international students in the United States, who number over one million. 

Alsu Kurmasheva spends 100 days in Russian detention; RFE/RL journalist Dmytro Yevshyn injured by Russian artillery fire in Ukraine; RFE/RL staff and board members participate in letter-writing campaign for imprisoned colleagues; and more.

"Between 2014 and 2023 at least 112 acts of transnational repression were committed against journalists by 26 governments, including those of Belarus, Cambodia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey" - Freedom House

Journalists living in exile face assault, harassment, and unlawful deportation at the hands of the governments they fled.