Analysis: Autocratic nations are reaching across borders to silence critics
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Writing in The Conversation, Dr Francesca Lessa (UCL Institute of the Americas) argues that autocracies are increasingly reaching across their borders to target people living abroad, enforcing the idea that they can reach their critics wherever they live. Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati survived an assassination attempt outside his home in Wimbledon, south London, in late March 2024. Eighteen months earlier, the London-based independent television channel Iran International, for which Zeraati
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