Ensuring regime detractors ‘disappear’ makes a comeback

China and Saudi Arabia are among modern authoritarians orchestrating increasingly brazen vanishings of opponents, says Nina L. Khrushcheva.

From the military juntas that ruled Argentina and Chile in the 1970s and 1980s to Joseph Stalin’s iron-fisted regime in the Soviet Union, dictatorships have a long history of making their detractors “disappear”.