In 2023, parliamentarians in Southeast Asia continued to face threats and harassment. Myanmar remains the worst country when it comes to jailing members of parliament(MPs), with all 74 of those detained in the region being held there. But Myanmar is not the only place where harassment against lawmakers takes place, and governments in many Southeast Asian countries have continued to use judicial harassment in particular against opposition lawmakers. It is a tactic APHR has documented in the region for many years, and which is intended both to intimidate dissenting voices....

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