The 2021 report released by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance found that 70 percent of the world’s population lives in countries that are either backsliding on benchmarks of civil liberties and democracy or are already authoritarian or “hybrid” regimes.
The global shift in favor of repressive rule was witnessed on February 1 when the Myanmar military seized power from the civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Artists and art organizations joined the civil-society protest movement across the country against the coup d’état. On March 27, performance artist and several poets were arrested at a protest. Satt spent 95 days at the notorious Insein prison before
