Category: Freedom of Speech
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“Live Working Or Die Fighting” – Paul Mason’s new book on the global labour movement
BBC Newsnight‘s indefatigable Paul Mason has a book out soon. [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDpQ634fmw] I’m waiting for an advance copy of this (hint, hint), but in the meantime, read more here, listen to an extract here, and order it here.
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Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS]
[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 [via GV/WITNESS]
[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 [via GV/WITNESS]
[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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Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practise in Mexico. It’s ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, in the…