Category: GV

• USA: Video-sharing places L.A.’s police in the spotlight [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hop over to Technorati right now and you’ll see that six out of the top fifteen videos being linked to by bloggers show the same incident – University of California police officers using a taser gun on an Iranian-American student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, in…

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  17/11/2006

  cellphone, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, GV, Human rights, internet, law, North America, online video, police, Technology, WITNESS

• Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practise in Mexico. It’s ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, in the…

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  30/10/2006

  Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, law, military, online video, police, politics, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• Video exposes child-soldier’s identity [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] If you’ve seen the guidelines for this site, you’ll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn’t post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean we wouldn’t even link to them. Today’s post is about one of those…

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  20/10/2006

  africa, children, Cyber-Activism, Governance, GV, Human rights, humanitarian, internet, law, military, online video, politics, REGION, Technology, War & Conflict, WITNESS

• Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it’s longer than the other videos we’ve put up, but I strongly recommend you watch this. [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI1l7jmabBA] It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence services breaking…

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  13/10/2006

  africa, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, law, online video, police, politics, protest, Technology, unions, WITNESS

• Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an…

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  03/10/2006

  citizen journalism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, law, Middle East & North Africa, military, Militia, North America, police, violence, War & Conflict, WITNESS