The latest edition of Freedom in the World finds that electoral irregularities, coups, and civil conflict weighed on the region, with 14 countries suffering score declines and only 5 recording improvements.
A total of 25 countries’ governments were responsible for 125 incidents of physical transnational repression last year, including the first documented cases perpetrated by the governments of Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, and Yemen.
Authoritarian governments are using dangerous tools to intimidate international students, visiting scholars, and faculty on American campuses. Chinese authorities are the single greatest threat to international students in the United States, who number over one million.Â