Category: Prisons

• 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

• Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CqgY0yWTqw] At this site, I’m trying to show videos that show or speak about human rights abuses, and – as in the Tunisian video above – the impact of human rights abuses on ordinary people. I don’t speak Arabic, so how do I…

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  27/09/2006

  Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, online video, Prisons, Software & Tools, Technology, WITNESS