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How authoritarian regimes try to silence dissidents in exile

World in Progress | Deutsche Welle by DW

Nov 22, 202330:00Science & Medicine

In July 2020, German-Iranian businessman and US resident Jamshid Sharmahd boarded an Emirates flight bound for India. Sharmahd had a layover in Dubai, where he checked into a hotel for the night. He then disappeared for...

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