Tag: police brutality
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Tensions in Athens – 2 reports
[Originally posted here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] We don’t often get much from Greece, but 6 December seemed like a busy day for the police and protestors alike… As I mentioned in my previous post, there were clashes between the police and “youths” in Athens yesterday, during which police shot dead one teenager. Riots/protests spread…
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Tarsniper videos expose police corruption in Morocco
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] I’m in a packed Budapest conference room, at the the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit. Today’s sessions focus on practical tools and measures that networks of activists can take to counteract global censorship efforts. Sami Ben Gharbia, the tireless Director of Advocacy for Global Voices, has just shown us…
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Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate
[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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China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi
[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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USA: Video-sharing places L.A.’s police in the spotlight
[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…
Sameer Padania 