Category: Human rights

• China: Government’s video-censorship foiled [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors…

  @sdp

  14/09/2006

  cellphone, Cyber-Activism, East Asia, Freedom of Speech, GV, Human rights, internet, law, mobile, online video, police, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• China: Government’s video-censorship foiled

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors…

  @sdp

  14/09/2006

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Video, Work

  cellphone, censorship, china, globalvoices, Hub Blog, mobile, online video, pilot, police, projects, protest, WITNESS

• Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public from their cellphones, little did they expect that their own misdemeanours would one day be caught in the frame. Malaysians have had to put up with police corruption…

  @sdp

  07/09/2006

  cellphone, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, law, mobile, online video, police, politics, south east asia, Technology, WITNESS

• Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public from their cellphones, little did they expect that their own misdemeanours would one day be caught in the frame. Malaysians have had to put up with police corruption…

  @sdp

  07/09/2006

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Video, Work

  cellphone, globalvoices, Hub Blog, malaysia, mobile, online video, pilot, police brutality, projects, squatgate, teresa kok, WITNESS