Category: Cyber-Activism

• 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

• 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…

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  24/11/2006

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

• 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