Is going into exile safe any longer?   A few years ago, a former Rwandan intelligence chief hiding out in exile was found strangled to death in a Johannesburg hotel room. Hanging on the door outside was a “Do Not Disturb” sign. It had been placed there to buy the assassins a bit of extra time as they fled the country.   This episode looks at the alarming rise in transnational repression and cross-border killings, where dictators and despots hunt down their enemies no matter where they are in the world. In the process, we ask whether dissidents can ever be safe in the 21stcentury, or if it’s just a matter of time before their murderous authoritarian regime hunts them down.   This episode features Michela Wrong, a phenomenal journalist and author of Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, which you can and should buy here: <a href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/michela-wrong/do-not-disturb/9781610398435/"> https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/michela-wrong/do-not-disturb/9781610398435/</a>   It also features the voices of Isabel Linzer and Nate Schenkkan at Freedom House, and you can find their report on transnational repression here: <a href= "https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression">https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression</a>   And we speak to Geoffrey York, who has reported on Rwanda for years as the Africa Bureau Chief of the Globe & Mail. You can find his reporting here: <a href= "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/</a> Support the show on Patreon at <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/powercorrupts">Patreon.com/powercorrupts</a>

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