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The data, read for you. Each lead is a shift, an outlier, or a recurring pattern the corpus surfaces — with the cited cases behind it one click away.
State Fabrication has fallen sharply as a basis for political prosecution
State Fabrication accounts for 2% of prosecutions with an identified basis dated 2022 or later — down from 19% among cases dated 2015 or earlier.
Belarus leans unusually hard on financial support cases
Financial Support drives 16% of Belarus's 549 prosecutions with an identified basis — 2.0× the global norm of 8%.
Physical Presence has risen sharply as a basis for political prosecution
Physical Presence accounts for 31% of prosecutions with an identified basis dated 2022 or later — up from 20% among cases dated 2015 or earlier.
Kazakhstan leans unusually hard on physical presence cases
Physical Presence drives 65% of Kazakhstan's 92 prosecutions with an identified basis — 2.3× the global norm of 29%.
Financial Support has risen sharply as a basis for political prosecution
Financial Support accounts for 11% of prosecutions with an identified basis dated 2022 or later — up from 1% among cases dated 2015 or earlier.
Azerbaijan leans unusually hard on state fabrication cases
State Fabrication drives 35% of Azerbaijan's 37 prosecutions with an identified basis — 8.1× the global norm of 4%.
Turkey leans unusually hard on informant / secret witness cases
Informant / Secret Witness drives 12% of Turkey's 147 prosecutions with an identified basis — 4.5× the global norm of 3%.
Vietnam leans unusually hard on online speech cases
Online Speech drives 91% of Vietnam's 35 prosecutions with an identified basis — 1.9× the global norm of 48%.
Myanmar leans unusually hard on physical presence cases
Physical Presence drives 56% of Myanmar's 43 prosecutions with an identified basis — 1.9× the global norm of 29%.
Bylock recurs across political-prosecution case files
Bylock is named in 20 documented cases across 1 country.
Uzbekistan leans unusually hard on state fabrication cases
State Fabrication drives 13% of Uzbekistan's 62 prosecutions with an identified basis — 3.0× the global norm of 4%.
ВКонтакте recurs across political-prosecution case files
ВКонтакте is named in 11 documented cases across 1 country.
Pegasus recurs across political-prosecution case files
Pegasus is named in 6 documented cases across 3 countries.
Russia: surge of intercepted communications prosecutions in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, USA
3 cases in the last 90 days — 3.0× the 0.5-case expected count from the prior 18-month baseline (3 comparable cases). Spans 2 regions. — articles 275 УК
Интернет recurs across political-prosecution case files
Интернет is named in 5 documented cases across 1 country.
Одноклассники recurs across political-prosecution case files
Одноклассники is named in 5 documented cases across 1 country.
Leads are computed from the case-basis dataset. Trends use case-mix shares (immune to uneven scrape coverage); country patterns compare a country's mix to the global norm; tooling counts named tools across case files. Every figure traces to the cited cases — verify before publishing.