Tag: violence
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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…
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Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it’s longer than the other videos we’ve put up, but I strongly recommend you watch this. [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI1l7jmabBA] It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence services breaking…
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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…
Sameer Padania 