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#JusticeForBung ✊ Two years without answers. Two years of Thailand’s justice system still trying to bury what it did. 🕯️
On 14th May 2024, Netiporn “Bung” 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 She had been detained after her bail was revoked in a lèse-majesté (Section 112) case and had gone on hunger strike to protest the denial of bail and the imprisonment of political dissidents.
Bung 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 Bung 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 Bung.
As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we at Manushya carry her voice in ours. We carry her fight in our bones. ✊
#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings
