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Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it.

In a new clampdown on independent media, Tajikistan has jailed a veteran journalist for criticizing regional officials, while another reporter faces 17 years in prison on undisclosed charges.