Category: mobile

• 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…

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  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

• Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] ‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these…

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  09/12/2006

  cellphone, citizen journalism, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, law, Middle East & North Africa, mobile, online video, police, politics, Prisons, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban Moscow’s Gay Pride March in May 2006. The gay rights activists who brought…

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  20/09/2006

  cellphone, citizen journalism, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, law, lgbt, mobile, online video, police, protest, sexuality, Technology, violence, 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…

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  14/09/2006

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

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  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