DEFENDING DEMOCRACY IN EXILE Policy Responses to Transnational Repression A person processed through the regular immigration track but later considered a threat to Thailand’s national interest could also be subjected to the management under national security measures. 53 Bhanubhatra Jittiang, Balancing Security and Humanitarianism: The Thai Government’s Response to Urban Forcibly Displaced Persons, (University of Wisconsin-Madison: Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2019). 31, 2019, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/31/thailand-offers-persecutedrohingya-little-hope# ; Sunai Phasuk, “Thailand Needs to Stop Inhumane Navy ‘Push-Backs’,” Bangkok Post, September 22, 2017, https://m.bangkokpost.com/ opinion/opinion/1328975/stop-inhumane-navy-push-backs. 54 Waritsara Rungthong and Caroline Stover, “Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism: Key Issues,” OpinioJuris, January 28, 2020, http://opiniojuris. org/2020/01/28/thailands-national-screening-mechanism-key-issues/. “Thai Police Under Orders to Arrest Members of Myanmar’s Shadow Govt,” The Irrawaddy, September, 2021, https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thaipolice-under-orders-to-arrest-members-of-myanmars-shadow-govt.html. 57 55 “Thailand: Let UN Refugee Agency Screen Rohingya,” HRW, May 21, 2020, https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/21/thailand-let-un-refugee-agency-screenrohingya# ; “Thailand Offers Persecuted Rohingya Little Hope,” HRW, July 56 Royal Thai Police, Foreign Affairs Division, 2018. “Extradition: A Method to Bring Fugitives Back for Prosecution.” 58 Amnesty International, “Thailand: Between a rock and a hard place,” Document reference ASA 39/7031/2017, September 28, 2017, https://www. amnesty.org/en/documents/asa39/7031/2017/en/. 59 Learn more about transnational repression and view the full report online by visiting www.freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression. Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to create a world where all are free. We inform the world about threats to freedom, mobilize global action, and support democracy’s defenders. 1850 M Street NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 freedomhouse.org facebook.com/FreedomHouseDC @FreedomHouse info@freedomhouse.org 202.296.5101