Beaten and Choked at a U.N. Mission, Then Arrested by the N.Y.P.D.

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Publish Date:

August 31, 2025

Author(s):

Coleman, Maia

Source:

The New York Times

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Related Organization(s):

Neukom Center for the Rule of Law

Summary

“We definitely see a trend of foreign authoritarian governments being emboldened to do things that perhaps they thought they couldn’t get away with before,” said Diego Zambrano, a professor at Stanford Law School. “There are just a lot more links with the West among a lot of foreign dictatorships, and I think it leads to a lot more of these cases.”