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Repressive governments ‘aggressively disregarding US laws to threaten’ dissidents in exile, watchdog says

Autocratic states are ‘increasingly and more aggressively disregarding US laws to threaten, harass, surveil, stalk, and even plot to physically harm people across the country’

The Independent UK

The Booming Export of Authoritarianism

Ever more governments are reaching beyond their borders to silence their critics, according to a new Freedom House report.

Foreign Policy

Rwanda accused of stalking, harassing and threatening exiles in US

African state that signed deal with UK to host asylum seekers perpetrates ‘transnational repression’, Freedom House report says

The Guardian - US

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The Long Arm of Authoritarianism

How Dictators Reach Across Borders to Shut Down Dissent

Foreign Affairs

India’s judiciary and the slackening cog of trust

Departures from substantive and procedural justice need deep scrutiny as the fallout could severely imperil governance

The Hindu

Nicholas Goldberg: Is democracy failing? Xi Jinping says it is, and he's not entirely wrong

President Joe Biden likes to say that we are locked in a global battle pitting democracy against autocracy.

Los Angeles Times

The country's first paramedics were Black. James McDaniel wants to tell their story onscreen

LOS ANGELES — "In every human endeavor there's a person of color smack dab in the middle of it," says actor James McDaniel. "I could go on forever talking about people of color we don't know about who have done extraordinary things."

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Ukraine War: How Russian Propaganda Dominates Chinese Social Media

In China’s cyberspace, Russian propaganda continues to influence the discourse over the war in Ukraine. Experts say the efforts could be Beijing’s attempt to trigger anti-Western sentiments.

The News Lens

The right's stealth assault on Somalia

In the 19th century, my homeland was carved up by imperialists. Now that's in danger of happening all over again

Salon

Commentary: Democracy is a victim of indifference

As President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has starkly illustrated “the battle between democracy and autocracy,” and new research from Freedom House underscores just how dire this crisis of global democracy has become.

Tribune News Service

"World's greatest democracy"? No way

Co-author of new Freedom House report on the decline of democracy talks about how the U.S. fell so far so fast

Salon

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