Tag: Hub Blog
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China: Tensions flare in western province of Xinjiang
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] Several media have reported violent clashes in the city of Urumqi between Uyghurs and Han Chinese (see NYT, The Times, BBC) – and now BBC Chinese is reporting that Urumqi is today under curfew. Urumqi is in the historically Muslim region of Xinjiang, currently being referred to in the MSM as “restive”, and…
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US to destroy evidence of torture of Binyam Mohamed?
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] A Guardian story suggests that a key piece of photographic evidence documenting the torture of Binyam Mohamed is about to be destroyed, if his case is dismissed in the US: Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial…
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People of the Screen
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] We set up the Hub to provide a focal point for online and mobile video in the human rights landscape. For those of you with long memories, we started out in 2006 as a blog diving deep into how people around the world were using the new participatory media for human…
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Action: Join Auster and Rushdie in calling for release of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] Our friends at PEN tell us that there’s still time for you to join Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster and many others in putting your name to a petition to free Chinese writer and critic Liu Xiaobo – recipient of this year’s PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom To Write Award. Liu –…
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In Focus: Destitute asylum seekers in the UK
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] On the Hub, we’ve encountered a wide variety of visual media for human rights, including much powerful photojournalism – from Magnum In Motion, VII Photo, and Human Rights Watch, among others. So when I watched this Monocle piece about the Prix Pictet on my way home from work, it reminded me…
Sameer Padania 