Tag: Hub Blog
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Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces
[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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Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world
[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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Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise
[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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China: Government’s video-censorship foiled
[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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Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess
[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…
Sameer Padania 