#StopTransnationalRepression! 📱 Exile should mean safety. But for women defenders like Bopha, the attacks just moved online.

Bopha* is a woman environmental activist from Southeast Asia. She faced imprisonment for her activism and fled her country to survive. But the harassment only followed her in digital spaces. 👁️

As Bopha describes it,

"Transnational Repression is a government tactic to shut down the voices of those who look for social justice.”

🚨 Repression continues online through digital threats or attacks: threatening messages, fake accounts, coordinated harassment, sexualised abuse, disinformation, hacking, and online surveillance.

For women defenders, the violence is also gendered. It attacks their bodies, credibility, families, and safety; because their resistance threatens power.

Digital rights are human rights. Violations of digital rights are violations of human rights. ⚖️

✊ Because transnational repression does not stop at borders, and it does not stop in the physical world.

*Name changed to protect her identity and safety.

#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings

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