⚖️ #StopTransnationalRepression | On 9 October, a Thai court will decide on the legality of Chinese investigative journalist’s months-long immigration detention in Bangkok. Bai should already be safe. He is recognised as a refugee by UNHCR, and a third country has already accepted him for resettlement… yet Thailand blocked his flight 𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙘𝙚. Now China wants him extradited. ⚠️ If returned, Bai faces political persecution, enforced disappearance and torture. 🚫 Bai’s case i

#StopTransnationalRepression | Bai Zhaodong, a 56-year-old Chinese investigative journalist and UNHCR-recognised refugee, has been unlawfully detained in Bangkok since January 2026. On 9 October, a Thai court will rule on the legality of his detention while China pursues his extradition. If he is forcibly returned, Bai risks grave threats to his life! 📰 Who is Bai? He has worked for more than two decades as an investigative journalist in China, most recently for Caijing maga

New CCTV footage tells us he was last seen at approximately 2:21 AM on 15 September, heading home after work in Samut Sakhon. But Khieo never made it home. You can read more about his case here: bit.ly/WhereIsKhieo Khieo is one of many Lao activists who have gone missing or were killed in Thailand for speaking out about political and social issues in Laos. Lao activists who seek safety and protection in Thailand still face transnational repression, both online and escalating

กําหนดการการแถลงข่าว (MEDIA ADVISORY) | นี่คือโอกาสสําหรับสื่อมวลชนในการรับฟังเสียงโดยตรงจากภาคประชาชนในระดับรากหญ้าที่มาจากพืนทีนอกกรุงเทพฯ ตังแต่กลุ่มปกป้องสิทธิชนชนพื้นเมืองและที่ดิน ไปจนถึงชุมชนในจังหวัดชายแดนภาคใต้ พนักงานบริการ (Sex Workers) และขบวนการ เคลื่อนไหวอื่น ๆ ที่มักถูกกีดกันจากการรายงานข่าวของสื่อกระแสหลัก อัปเดต (28 กันยายน 2569): การเลื่อนงานแถลงข่าว เนื่องจากฝนตกหนักและเกิดน้ำท่วมในหลายพื้นที่ของกรุงเทพฯ งานแถลงข่าว UPR IV ว่าด้วยสถานการณ์สิทธิมนุษยชนในปร

A rare opportunity for journalists to hear directly from grassroots voices beyond Bangkok, from Indigenous and land defenders to communities in Thailand’s Deep South, sex workers and other movements too often excluded from mainstream coverage UPDATE (ao 28 September 2026): PRESS CONFERENCE POSTPONED Due to heavy rain and flooding across Bangkok, the UPR IV Press Conference on the Human Rights Situation in Thailand, originally scheduled for 30 September 2026, has been postpone

เขียว ลาบจัน นักกิจกรรมทางการเมืองชาวลาววัย 26 ปี ได้หายตัวไปในไทยตั้งแต่วันที่ 15 กันยายน 2026 โดยก่อนที่เขียวจะหายตัวไป เขาต้องเผชิญกับการปราบปรามข้ามชาติทางดิจิทัลอย่างหนักจากการออกมาแสดงความคิดเห็นเกี่ยวกับประเด็นการเมืองของประเทศลาว เขาถูกเปิดเผยข้อมูลส่วนบุคคล (Doxxing) รวมทั้งตกเป็นเป้าหมายของเนื้อหาที่ถูกดัดแปลงด้วย AI ซึ่งเป็นเนื้อหาที่มีความรุนแรง เขาถูกถูกขู่ว่าจะถูกส่งตัวกลับประเทศ ถูกขู่ฆ่า ซึ่งรวมถึงการตั้งเงินรางวัลเพื่อล่าหัวเขียวที่สูงถึง 8,000 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐ ด

Khieo Lapchanh, a 26-year-old Lao political activist, has been missing in Thailand since 15 September 2026. Before disappearing, Khieo faced relentless digital transnational repression for speaking out on political and social issues in Laos. He was doxxed, targeted with AI-manipulated content, threatened with forced return, and subjected to death threats, including a USD 8,000 bounty on his life. Fearing for his safety, he had already been forced into silence. 📍 Last Seen: ~

We warned the Thai Government. It chose to proceed anyway. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘆𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀! On 26 August 2026, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul signed the Prime Minister’s Office Regulation on Deportation B.E. 2569. It was published in the Royal Gazette on 27 August and entered into force today, 28 August 2026. The Regulation accelerates procedures for removi

We’re still not over our UPR IV & ICCPR Strategic Advocacy Workshop in Bangkok! 🇹🇭 On our final day, we turned to another avenue for holding the Thai government accountable: Thailand’s review under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by the UN Human Rights Committee. 🇺🇳 Over fifty human rights defenders began drafting community-led shadow reports to influence Thailand’s upcoming List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR). The goal is to ensure

Understanding violence, militarisation, and the struggle for self-determination #FreePatani ✊ On this International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, we honour those whose lives have been altered by conflict in Thailand’s Deep South. For over two decades, the region has endured protracted violence and militarisation, a burden borne heavily by local communities and women sustaining life amid crisis. But reducing Patani to a narrativ

⚖️ On 14 July, Thailand’s Cabinet greenlit a draft deportation regulation designed to expel foreign nationals “without delay” and without legal protections. But when speed replaces due process, lives of human rights defenders are destroyed. As Manushya Foundation’s Founder Emilie Palamy Pradichit reminds us: “Laws do not choose between protection and punishment; people do.” The Thai government is making a choice: 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙪𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙙�

An authoritarian superpower seeking to silence its critics abroad needs to look no further than Thailand for a model partner-in-transnational repression. 🇹🇭🤝🇨🇳 Right now, Chinese human rights defenders and UNHCR-recognised refugees Bai Zhaodong and Zhou Junyi remain detained in Bangkok, within arm’s reach of the regime they fled. Their forced return will expose them to torture and enforced disappearance. Thailand has a choice: protect human rights defenders, or cement it

#SaveChaoLay! On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we lay bare how the tourism industry of Koh Lao, Thailand profits off compounding violence against the Moken peoples who call it home. In this interview, Naowwanit Chaemphit, an Indigenous woman human rights defender and community leader, exposes how the tourism industry of Koh Lao, Thailand profits off compounding violence against the Moken peoples who call it home. She joined Manushya’s workshop, “Tur

The second day of our workshop, "From Evidence to Action: Strategic Advocacy for the UPR IV & ICCPR Reviews of Thailand", was all about shifting power. We moved from drafting factsheets to gearing up frontline human rights defenders to engage directly with diplomats. Best Chitsanupong Nithiwana, Founder of Young Pride Foundation and trans woman human rights defender, put it best about activists coming together from across Thailand: “For too long, access to diplomats has been

As the next step in our journey towards Thailand’s UPR IV this November, we gathered over 50 human rights defenders from across the country on 21 July for Day 1 of "From Evidence to Action: Strategic Advocacy for the UPR IV & ICCPR Reviews of Thailand". 🇹🇭 We built a #PeopleLedUPRMovement. We submitted the evidence. Now, it’s time to make the UN listen. Together, we are turning local evidence, lived realities, and community demands into sharp advocacy factsheets for high-le