Tag: police

• 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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  27/06/2008

  Human rights, Technology, Video

  accountability, censorship, corruption, gvsummit08, Hub Blog, Impunity, morocco, north africa, police, police brutality, poverty, redeyef, tarsniper, transparency, tunisia, WITNESS

• 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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  14/09/2006

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Video, Work

  cellphone, censorship, china, globalvoices, Hub Blog, mobile, online video, pilot, police, projects, protest, WITNESS