Political Repression

Stasi remand prisoners

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

Comparative criminal procedure

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. …

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