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Freedom House invites you to the following virtual event

BORDERLESS REPRESSION:

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The Reach of the Rwandan State

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

11:30 a.m. ET

via Zoom

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Often heralded as bringing peace, stability, and economic progress to Rwanda, President Paul Kagame’s regime is far from a universal force for good. Rwanda is rated Not Free in Freedom in the World

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and Freedom in the Net

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, and the government uses surveillance, intimidation, alleged assassination, and enforced disappearance to suppress dissent in the country. What’s more, the government’s extensive campaign of transnational repression

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means that Rwandans abroad also risk surveillance, harassment, and physical attack for speaking out.

Join Freedom House for a conversation about these troubling dynamics with Michela Wrong, whose new book, Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

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, traces the development of Rwanda’s authoritarian regime and the associated campaign of extraterritorial violence.

Register now

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for this compelling discussion on May 13, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. ET.

About Michela Wrong:

Michela Wrong has spent nearly three decades writing about Africa, first as a Reuters correspondent based in Cote d'Ivoire and former Zaire, and then as the Financial Times Africa correspondent, based in Kenya. From journalism, she moved into book-writing. Previous books include In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, the story of Mobutu Sese Seko, I Didn’t do it for You, focussing on Eritrea, It’s Our Turn to Eat, an examination of Kenyan corruption, and Borderlines, a novel set in the Horn of Africa. Her latest book, Do Not Disturb, is a scathing assessment of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and President Paul Kagame. She is based in London.



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