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✊ Borders are supposed to protect. So why are human rights defenders still being hunted in exile?

Human Rights Watch has noted that, “Thailand has become a ‘swap mart’ for dissidents across the region, where governments cooperate to target critics beyond their own borders.”

This is transnational repression (TNR). When states reach across borders to surveil, intimidate, silence, detain, forcibly return, or even physically harm those who speak out. 🩹

🇹🇭 From digital surveillance and online harassment to enforced disappearance and assassination attempts, TNR is not an imaginary threat. It is happening now, and across Southeast Asia, Thailand has become the leading hub where these abuses unfold, with over 150 reported cases in the last decade alone.

For many human rights defenders, crossing a border does not mean safety. Not only will they be a target, but their family and friends will also be at risk.

📲 Swipe through. Learn the patterns. Stay with us for the voices of survivors. We can all be part of ending transnational repression.

♾️Equal Human Beings

**g ✊Two years without B**g. Two years without answers. Two years of Thailand’s justice system still trying to bury what it did. 🕯️

On 14th May 2024, Netiporn “B**g” Sanesangkhom, a 28-year-old pro-democracy activist from Thailand and member of Thaluwang, died in custody while in pre-trial detention. She had been detained after her bail was revoked in a lèse-majesté (Section 112) case and had gone on hunger strike to protest the denial of bail and the imprisonment of political dissidents.

B**g should still be here.

She was not convicted. She was not sentenced. She was a young woman human rights defender demanding what every person deserves: freedom, dignity, justice, and the right to speak truth to power without being caged for it.

Her death was not just a tragedy. It was an indictment of a system that uses pre-trial detention as punishment, weaponizes the law against dissent, and treats political prisoners as disposable.

Two years on, we remember B**g not as a victim of silence, but as a rebel whose voice still echoes in every call to free political prisoners, end judicial harassment, and abolish laws used to crush democracy.

Thailand’s authorities must deliver truth, justice, and accountability for B**g.

As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we at Manushya carry her voice in ours. We carry her fight in our bones. ✊

**g

♾️ Equal Human Beings

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: 29 JUNE 2026! Digital repression doesn’t stop at borders, and neither does our resistance. ✊

When diplomatic pressure cancelled RightsCon () the world’s leading digital rights forum, we made a choice: keep going. Join us for a critical conversation that was meant to take place in Zambia, now coming to you through a webinar.

🌐 How the UN Cybercrime Treaty is Advancing Transnational Repression in Southeast Asia
📅 Monday, 29 June 2026
📍 LIVE on Manushya’s Facebook and YouTube

🕝 2:15 - 3:45 PM Kathmandu
🕞 3:30 - 5:00 PM Bangkok
🕧 6:30 - 8:00 PM Naarm

🌏 Across Southeast Asia, governments are using cybersecurity laws to surveil, silence, and pursue dissidents across borders. The UN Cybercrime Treaty gives those practices a legal veneer, and civil society needs to be ready.

Hear from experts from ASEAN Regional Coalition to .

Panellists:
‣ Emilie Palamy Pradichit, Manushya Foundation
‣ Noor Azizah, Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network
‣ Seng Sovathana, Cambodian Center for Human Rights l មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលសិទ្ធិមនុស្សកម្ពុជា
‣ Nenden Arum, SAFEnet
‣ Dr Jean Linis-Dinco, Manushya Foundation

Moderated by Debbie Stothard, ALTSEAN-Burma



♾️ Equal Human Beings