Political Repression

Civil liberties in the criminal process

The project investigates why democracies differ so profoundly in the civil liberty protections embedded in their criminal process and why these protection regimes change over time. …

Stasi remand prisoners

Using a new dataset of Stasi remand prisoners from the 1960s until 1989, this project aims to gain a systematic understanding of the practice of authoritarian justice in the GDR …

Repressalien gegen Menschenrechtsverteidiger:innen im Umfeld der UNO: Monitoring und Maßnahmen

This article analyzes reprisals and intimidation against human rights defenders who engage with the United Nations, focusing on how such cases are monitored and addressed within …

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Janika Spannagel

International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Campaigning for Agents of Change

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights …

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Janika Spannagel