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Roger Wicker: “This hearing will come to order. Welcome on behalf of the Helsinki Commission to this hearing on 'Tools of Transnational…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 2019
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.'
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker opens the hearing on transnational repression by autocrats.

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