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Transnational Repression: 2020 – 2024

  • Women Press Freedom

Women Press Freedom identifies transnational repression as a significant threat to journalists who have fled authoritarian regimes, highlighting the increased use of tactics like surveillance, harassment, and violence to silence dissent beyond national borders. According to the report, 50% of exiled women journalists were targeted through transnational repression reside in the EU.

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Belarusian Journalist In Exile Calls Out State Abuses

  • Deutsche Welle
  • Vicky Hristova | Axel Rowohlt

Reporters Without Borders has ranked Belarus as the worst country for press freedom in Europe. Maria Savushkina, a Belarusian journalist currently living in Berlin, reaches tens of thousands of people back home with her political satire.

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Insights from the Council of Europe’s Safety Platform

  • International Press Institute

The newly published “Press Freedom in Europe: Time to turn the Tide” report highlights the persistent use of spyware technology to surveil media actors, jeopardising both media freedom and the digital security of journalists.

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Belarus: A Life in Exile Is a Life in Transit

  • Sueddeutsche Zeitung
  • Swetlana Tichanowskaja

With her husband likely imprisoned in Belarus and facing a 15-year sentence herself, civil rights activist Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya shares reflections on life in exile with her children in Lithuania.

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