Saipira Furstenberg

Saipira Furstenberg is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter. She has a broad range of interests in the areas of security studies, transnational repression and politics of authoritarian states, with a regional focus on Central Asia. She is currently working on the Central Asia Political Exile (CAPE) Database project.

How Europe helps authoritarian regimes to export repression

From extraditing persecuted activists to draconian migration control, Western states are quietly consenting to authoritarian regimes

By Saipira Furstenberg and Marcus Michaelsen

/ 13 May 2021

How Europe helps authoritarian regimes to export repression

The struggle for freedom of speech in Tajikistan: Khayrullo Mirsaidov and the question of international responsibility

The conviction of a well-known journalist once again raises the question of the international community’s attitude to repressive regimes – and how foreign aid and human rights have been decoupled.

By John Heathershaw and Saipira Furstenberg

/ 16 Jul 2018