Figure 1 - Illustration of the junta’s ecosystem of digital repression6
These mechanisms are intentionally designed to intimidate and control citizens, and to erode
their privacy and fundamental rights by limiting access to information and suppressing
freedom of expression. The overall impact is that through these comprehensive measures the
junta has established significant control over citizens’ privacy, freedom of movement, online
expression and access to information, impacting their everyday activities. This has had farreaching consequences for WHRDs and other pro-democracy activists residing within the
country who are within reach of the junta’s repressive apparatuses.
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Developed by MIP.
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