Category: East Asia

• Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it…

  @sdp

  07/01/2007

  africa, Caribbean, cellphone, Central Asia & Caucasus, citizen journalism, Death Penalty, East Asia, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, Latin America, law, mobile, online video, politics, REGION, religion, south asia, Technology, War & Conflict, WITNESS

• China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hot on the heels of the Chinese government’s claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here’s some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy’s latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China…

  @sdp

  24/11/2006

  Cyber-Activism, East Asia, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, military, police, politics, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• 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