Category: North America

• 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

• 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