On July 20, a Thai court will deliver its verdict in the country's first criminal case built on conscientious objection. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, a Thai activist, publisher, and organiser, has spent 12 years telling the state, openly, that he won't be conscripted. In April 2024 he refused to enter the draft lottery and read a manifesto instead. Now he faces up to 3 years in prison under the 1954 Military Service Ac…

Channel
War Resisters’ International
@warresisters
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
78subscribers
+2 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001558379333 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @warresisters |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 7 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/warresisters |
Topic
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 28 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Sept 2026, 16:18 | 78 | +2 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 04:01 | 76 | +1 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 17:54 | 75 | -1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 21:01 | 76 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:12 | 76 | first reading |
Engagement
18 posts held, back to 31 October 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 17 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
We are excited to announce the dates for this year's Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice! The week will take place 21-27th September 2026, and there will be a first mobilisation call on Monday June 22, 17.00 - 18.00 CEST. You can register for the call here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/brCTafWGRlSw8AAgiFrnXQ And there’s more info here: https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/global-week-action-…
Drones are changing the battlefield forever - find out how and why in the latest article on The Broken Rifle blog, from Dutch organisation Stop Wapenhandel https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/drones-drones-drones
✊We reject militarisation and stand for the right to refuse to kill. Conscription is returning in some places and increasing in others, and military responses are being normalised as the answer to every crisis. We are told there are no alternatives. WE REFUSE that logic. People everywhere continue to resist war and the military service. Conscientious objection is one of the most powerful forms of this resistance: …
This week, the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels is taking place in Santa Marta, Colombia. In this new article on the Broken Rifle blog, Ana Sánchez Mera explains why this is as important to antimilitarists as the climate movement. https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/fossil-fuels-dont-just-burn-planet-they-fuel-genocide
Across different contexts, people are finding ways to refuse militarisation and support those who say no to conscription. If you’re between 18 and 35 and you’re curious about how this organising happens in practice, join the Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab. We’ll explore concrete tools, experiences, and ways to build solidarity together. 📣 Registration is still open: https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/third-cycle-antim…
❗️❗️Urgent: Human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko detained - please share widely Ukrainian conscientious objector and human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko has been detained in Kyiv without due legal procedure. Yurii Sheliazhenko is a well-known conscientious objector, publicly declared since 1998, a pacifist and a human rights defender. He has previously reported on the cruel practices of "busification", forc…
☮️ Militarism is everywhere. So is resistance! ✊ We’re excited to announce the 3rd cycle of the Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab (15 April–3 June). This online workshop series is for young activists (18–35) who want to strengthen their organising skills, connect with others, and take action for antimilitarism, for conscientious objection, and against the arms trade. 📅 8 participatory sessions 🌍 Learn from organisers …
The WRI executive committee has published a new statement on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, you can find it here: https://wri-irg.org/en/node/42880
Join us from April to July for our Disarming the Climate Crisis training programme! Over eight online sessions we will be joined by activists, researchers and organisers from around the world who will share their experience and knowledge of taking action at the intersection of militarism and the climate crisis. This online training programme will be an opportunity to extend your knowledge and understanding of the re…
Lowana Veal, from our Icelandic affiliate Samtök hernaðarandstæðinga ("Campaign Against Militarism") has shared some reflections for The Broken Rifle blog about a recent solidarity event held outside Greenland's consulate in Reykjavik. "At first, no one really believed that Donald Trump was really serious about owning Greenland, using military force if necessary. But people became more alarmed after Katie Miller, th…
📢 On the situation in Venezuela: a statement to read and share We’re sharing a statement from the Latin American and Caribbean Antimilitarist Network (RAMALC), endorsed by WRI’s Executive Committee, on the situation in Venezuela. It talks about US military actions and the impact of militarism in the region. 💡 Take a moment to read, reflect, and share: staying informed is the first step to solidarity. 🔗 Read the fu…
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @warresisters. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
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“War Resisters’ International” (@warresisters), 78 subscribers as measured 25 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/warresisters.
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