This hearing will come to order. Welcome on behalf of the Helsinki Commission to this hearing on 'Tools of Transnational Repression: How Autocrats Punish Dissent Overseas.'
Roger Wicker: “This hearing will come to order. Welcome on behalf of the Helsinki Commission to this hearing on 'Tools of Transnational…”
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Wicker opens the hearing on transnational repression by autocrats.
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