Download or read book Defending Democracy in Exile written by Yana Gorokhovskaia and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past year, governments around the world have engaged in increasingly brazen attempts to stifle dissent by attacking critics who live abroad. These audacious acts of transnational repression, in which governments reach across national borders to silence opposition among diaspora and exile communities, demonstrated a dangerous disregard for international law, democratic norms, and state sovereignty. Despite growing awareness of the problem, transnational repression remains a global threat to human rights and democratic values because few tools exist to protect its intended targets.