Digital repression stalks us all in Myanmar

World leaders must open their ears and commit to meaningful action

20211209 Myanmar mouth

 A demonstrator protests against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2021. © Reuters

Sai Arkar, a pseudonym, is a human rights associate at Fortify Rights, a human rights group.

While resistance fighters are confronting regime soldiers in Myanmar's many active conflict zones, the internet has become a separate battlefield where the fight to expose the military government's daily brutality is raging. For Myanmar-based human rights defenders like myself, navigating the arbitrary restrictions on internet access is a daily struggle beset with nuanced dangers -- with one false move resulting in years behind bars.

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