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. 6 Developed by MIP. 9

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