- Amnesty International's "Unsubscribe" campaign video Amnesty International’s UK section has released its Unsubscribe Campaign video, and it’s visceral and powerful. Andy Carvin has an interview with the team behind the videos here (as Andy says on his blog: “Be forewarned that it’s very unsettling, and not at all appropriate for children.“):
- 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 […]
- US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] When President George W. Bush confirmed in a speech last month that the CIA has been operating a programme of secret detentions on foreign territory, it was portrayed by the United States Government as part […]
- Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an […]
