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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 18d

Large anti corruption protests in the Philippines are underway.

Triggered by deadly floods which exposed $2billion lost to corruption in flood defence projects some of which didn't exist at all.

www.rappler.com/philippines/...

And a familiar flag is being flown at the protests.

Two straw hat pirate flags being waved by protesters in Manilla, Philippines

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · 24d

"What should human rights activists do when the nation state-led human rights order is eroding?" One tentative answer is that the human right community needs to rely on each other more.
Individual wellbeing matters, and we should level our game to collective resilience. #UNRBHR2025

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 24d

A the #UNRBHR2025 Forum in Bangkok? Join us:
- "Resilience we should all practice in difficult times: Lessons from Garment Workers in Bangladesh and Myanmar". lnkd.in/esFjHAZT
- "A Global Severance Guarantee Fund is the Solution to the Fashion Industry 'Cut & Run' Business model". lnkd.in/e6e86kkK

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Aug 31

Autocrats love to smear mass protest and discontent as "foreign conspiracy" or "instigated by Western forces."
Well Trump doesn't support democracy and USAID is axed, and autocrats are still scapegoating their failure and arrogance to external force

Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Aug 30

Protests in Indonesia today... a thread. Many have started already. Solidarity with the Peoples of Indonesia against the gov't. ✊

Also do not fall for the propaganda & narratives that sets communities against each other.

Thank you to "Bareng Warga - #IndonesiaGelap" on Twitter for sourcing 🙏
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INFORMASI GERAK WARGA
30 AGUSTUS 2025
#RESETINDONESIA

WARGA WAIC
LINDUNGI WARGA MINORITAS
DAN SESAMA WARGA
JANGAN RUSAK DAN AMBIL
MILIK SESAMA WARGA
JANGAN SAKITI SESAMA WARGA
SEBARKAN DI SEMUA GRUP WHATSAPP DAN KE
ORANG-ORANG YANG KAMU SAYANGI

Jangan termakan dengan narasi dan provokasi kotor untuk mendiskreditkan emosi dan gerakan warga.

Kita dapat lihat bagaimana narasi untuk melakukan kekerasan kepada warga minoritas dan ajakan penjarahan bisa menjadi strategi untuk memecah belah warga.

Abaikan, rekam, dan laporkan provokasi kepada sesama supaya semua bisa menjaga diri.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Aug 30

KontraS have posted this on twitter. Things are bad in Indonesia. Live ammo has been authorised by the chief of police against protesters.

KontraS #StopGenocide @KontraSupdates

ALL EYES ON INDONESIA'S DYING

DEMOCRACY

From the misuse of tear gas to the

open fire of live bullets. From ‘foreign

henchmen’ narratives to 'paid protests’

narratives. From promises of respecting

dissent to silencing journalists

#ProtectEachOther

#StopPoliceBrutality

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Aug 10

New week #MilkTeaAlliance & so here is our 🧵of upcoming events & som key highlights

To start. On August 10, 2020 the #ธรรมศาสตร์จะไม่ทน rally took place. 10 demands were issued by students & activists amongst them reform of the Monarchy.
Many who spoke are now jailed.
tlhr2014.com/archives/77445
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Picture of the stage of the rally.

ON THIS DAY: 10 demands for monarchy reform in #ThammasatWillNotTolerate, leading to charges of 'overthrowing the government'

Five years ago today (August 10, 2020), at Thammasat University's Rangsit Center, near the Naga Plaza, a #ThammasatWillNotTolerate rally took place.

ON THIS DAY: 10 ข้อเรียกร้องปฏิรูปสถาบันกษัตริย์ ใน #ธรรมศาสตร์จะไม่ทน สู่ข้อหา ‘ล้มล้างการปกครองฯ’

วันนี้เมื่อ 5 ปีที่แล้ว (10 ส.ค. 2563) ที่มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์ ศูนย์รังสิต บริเวณลานพญานาค มีการชุมนุม #ธรรมศาสตร์จะไม่ทน โดยมีผู้สลับกันขึ้นปราศรัยมาจากหลากหลายกลุ่ม เพื่อเรียกร้องให้แก้ไขรัฐธรรมนูญ, ยุบสภาและหยุดคุกคามประชาชน รวมทั้งยังมีข้อเสนอเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับสถาบันกษัตริย์

Picture of the crowd at the rally holding up 3 fingers.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Aug 7

This press conference with @cleanclothes.bsky.social & @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social on the case of non payment of workers in the garment industry.

The workers are owed years worth of wages.

www.facebook.com/share/v/1LaG...

Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Event!
📆7th Aug
🕑2pm Thailand Time

@cleanclothes.bsky.social @solidaritycenter.bsky.social to hold press conference at FCCThailand & FB Live
‬"Holding companies accountable for wage theft: Over 900 garment workers owed millions"
W/ @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social & more

www.fccthai.com/events/534

7th Aug
2pm Thailand Time
FCC Thailand
Press conference with former workers of body fashion Ltd
‬Holding companies accountable for wage theft: Over 900 garment workers owed millions

More than 900 Thai workers are owed millions of US dollars by the factory owner of Body Fashion Thailand Limited, and the prominent European and American brands who ordered their clothing manufactured there. Over the course of several months, the owner of Body Fashion illegally terminated the entire workforce from two factories in Nakhon Sawan and Samut Prakan without a single dollar in severance being paid to any worker, many of whom had worked at the factories for over a decade.

Dave Welsh, country director, Solidarity Center Thailand.

Scott Nova, executive director, Worker Rights Consortium.

Gertrude Klaffenböck, coordinator, Austrian Clean Clothes Campaign, Südwind.

Johnson Ching Yin, Yeung, International Urgent Appeals coordinator, Clean Clothes Campaign.

Prasit Koedphithak, former Body Fashion garment worker.

Jaruwan Karak, former Body Fashion garment worker.

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Aug 6

Makes me guess the photo was taken in Wan Chai🙈

Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Aug 6

The owner's corporate conglomerate, where your panties might come from. Join us in the press con at 2pm BKK. www.fccthai.com/events/534

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hiding from a very complicated corporate structure, that shielded him from the law. The Thai court has ordered compensation to the workers, but the workers were up against their boss protected by hundreds of subsidiaries, proxies and off-shore entities. For the first time tmr, we will unmask ...

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's been a while since I post becoz work is just overwhelming 🙈
And this is one of the battles @cleanclothes.bsky.social and allies are fighting.
This case is crucial because millions of USD are at stake, plus the perpetrator is Malaysian #HongKonger wealthy businessmen. For years he has been...

Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Event!
📆7th Aug
🕑2pm Thailand Time

@cleanclothes.bsky.social @solidaritycenter.bsky.social to hold press conference at FCCThailand & FB Live
‬"Holding companies accountable for wage theft: Over 900 garment workers owed millions"
W/ @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social & more

www.fccthai.com/events/534

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Jun 18

Our friends in Thailand has been continuously harassed by the art 112 trial.

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Joint Statement from Asian Human rights orgs @altsean.bsky.social @fidh-official.bsky.social
ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, ‪@frontlinedefenders.bsky.social‬ & more.

THAILAND: Drop charges against Pimsiri Petchnamrob & end abuse of judicial processes against protestors!

#FreeOurFriends

What happened

In November 2021, Pimsiri was indicted under a total of 10 charges related to lèse-majesté (royal defamation law), sedition, and illegal assembly laws.

She was charged for violating the COVID-19 Emergency Decree after delivering a speech during a peaceful protest in November 2020 near the 11th Military Regiment Headquarters in Bangkok. In her speech, Pimsiri referred to a statement by then United Nations Special

Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion, David Kaye, on how the lèse-majesté laws have no place in a democratic country.

Although Pimsiri never directly advocated for monarchy reforms nor did she make any remarks about the royal family, she was still charged under Section 112 (lèse-majesté) of the Thai Criminal Code. The law makes defamation, insults, or threats to the monarchy a criminal offence.

Pimsiri’s indictment exemplifies an overly broad and unjust application of the law, raising serious concerns over its wider use to suppress democracy, freedom of expression, and freedom of peaceful assembly.

Pimsiri is not alone in facing criminal charges in Thailand for their human rights work. She is among five human rights defenders who were indicted for delivering speeches in the same peaceful protest. Other Thai human rights defenders are facing the same legal attacks.

After Pimsiri’s indictment in November 2021, she was released on bail with an overseas travel restriction. This has required her to seek court approval to leave Thailand. Her subsequent requests to travel abroad to participate in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Switzerland were consistently denied.

Call to action

The case against Pimsiri represents a worrying trend of silencing peaceful dissent.

As a member of the UNHRC and a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Thailand has an obligation to respect and ensure the right to freedom of expression and should set a good example of implementing the highest standards of human rights protection.

Pimsiri’s indictment and overseas travel ban constitutes a serious form of censorship as well as a direct contravention of Thailand’s commitment to fulfill, protect, and promote its human rights obligations at the international level. We respectfully call on Thai authorities to uphold its international human rights obligations before the ICCPR.

Likewise, the authorities should end all forms of abuse of judicial processes against those peacefully exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including women human rights defenders like Pimsiri.

Sincerely,

Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN Burma)
ASEAN SOGIE Caucus (ASC)
ASEAN Youth FORUM
Asia Democracy Network
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS)
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights, within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Front Line Defenders
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet)
World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · Apr 3

Today, Thai and #Myanmar CSOs representative held a condemnation announcement of Thai government for extending the invitation to Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to attend the 6th #BIMSTEC hosted by Thailand despite the strong #opposition from the #Thai and Myanmar CSOs.

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Mar 25

To be fair, #Signal is secure, when used properly.
That's why the UK online safety bill tries to break Signal encryption.

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Mar 18

Follow this for endless memessss!

@royngerng.bsky.social

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · Mar 17

👋 Hi Bluesky, we’re CCC, a worker-led global network fighting to improve the working conditions in the fashion industry.

Follow us for topical commentary, campaign updates and memes taking aim at Big Fashion brands & their billionaire CEOs.

#IntroPost #WorkerRights #SustainableFashion #LivingWages

Meme of Kermit the frog winding up window to avoid questions. Text reads Zara: we made 5.4 billion! NGOs: how much do you pay Bangladeshi workers? Zara: silence

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Dec 6

My mum stands with #Palestine.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Dec 6

I got told I couldn't title the statement "Yoon suk yeol kae saek ki" which was the original draft title...

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Tom Grundy @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com · Dec 5

Sent by a friend - a demo in Causeway Bay against Israel's genocide in Gaza.

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Webb-site @webb-site.com · Dec 4

Breaking: at 30-Sep-2024, the number of people on remand (presumed innocent) in HK jails is a record high 3,794, or 39.95% of the prison population excluding immigration detainees. webb-site.com/dbpub/jail.asp

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Dec 3

Rather than staying overnight. Hong Kong is still one of the transit hubs in the region despite it being overshadowed by Bangkok / Singapore.

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Dec 3

Cheap flights to Hong Kong are definitely one factor for ASEAN countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia. There are growing Indian expat communities that might attract their friends and families. Worth noting that during summer holidays, 1/3 of non-mainland traveler are transiting..

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Dec 2

Biden: "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son"

The World: I beg your pardon?🧐

Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Nov 28

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hear, Hear! If we could handle our feelings, we could handle a lot more.
/When you are under pressure for a long time, you have to find ways to cope. I try to face it calmly. I always say that we can’t change our circumstances. We can only change ourselves and how we handle our feelings/

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · Nov 27

A Q&A with Chan Po-ying, one of Hong Kong's last few pro-democracy activists in the city (and, incidentally, Long Hair's spouse)

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/w...

Meet One of Hong Kong’s Last Few Pro-Democracy Activists (Gift Article)

For Chan Po-ying, a labor rights leader, life is one of constant police surveillance, even on hikes. But she finds solace from tiny gestures of support.

www.nytimes.com

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Nov 27

I often feel powerlessness.
But in transnational we have the power to narrate our struggle and own our stories - a building block for us to envision an alternative to the status quo and movement building.
Thanks @insightmyanmar.bsky.social team for the conversation.

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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · Nov 22

We didn't choose to live in darkness, but we could choose how to deal with it. There is plenty of injustice and desperation in #HongKong enough to shallow every aspect of our lives. We could choose to look for the light, embrace the inspiration and kindness our friends gave us.

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