Former Yugoslavia: Can video play a part in truth, justice and reconciliation? [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Gavin Simpson, Posted: Nov 6 06

Issues: Crimes against humanity, Genocide, International criminal court

Tags: Balkans, conflict

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Oct 30 06

Regions: Mexico

Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Impunity

Tags: bradwill, indymedia, oaxaca, rawfootage

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS's collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Video exposes child-soldier's identity [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Oct 20 06

Regions: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Liberia, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka

Tags: childsoldiers, conflict, DRC, humansecurity, ltte, myanmar

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS's collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Oct 13 06

Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Labor unions, Police brutality

Tags: interview, Mugabe, Protest, unions, violence

[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.

US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Gavin Simpson, Posted: Oct 5 06

Regions: United States

Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Detention, Forced disappearances

Tags: extraordinary rendition, khalid el-masri

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online - this post was written by Gavin Simpson]

Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Oct 3 06

Regions: Iraq, United States

Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Forced disappearances, Police brutality

Tags: aliveinbaghdad, iraqwar, military

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Sep 27 06

Regions: Tunisia

Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Detention, Freedom of opinion & expression

Tags: googlemaps, maps, prisons

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS's collaboration with Global Voices Online]

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Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Sep 20 06

Regions: Croatia, Eastern Europe, Russia

Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, LGBTQ, Sexual rights

Tags: LGBT, Moscow, pride

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS's collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess [via GV/WITNESS]

By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Sep 7 06

Regions: Malaysia

Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Detention, Police brutality

Tags: cellphone, squatgate

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS's collaboration with Global Voices Online]

When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public from their cellphones, little did they expect that their own misdemeanours would one day be caught in the frame.