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The Orwell Awards - Editorials Archive
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Britain has 1 percent of the world’s population but about 20 percent of its CCTV cameras. It has one camera for every 14 people in the country.
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The former head of MI6 says Big Brother has gone too far.
3
Guilty Of Being Poor: Welcome to the debtors’ prisons of the 21st century.
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Prison Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations With a Quarter of the World’s Prisoners.
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From The New York Times: Tales From Torture’s Dark World
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Tasers have killed 400 in the US and Canada since 2001.
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"Big Brother database a 'terrifying' assault on traditional freedoms." - Ben Russell, Home Affairs Correspondent for www.independent.co.uk
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China now conducts executions on specially equipped "death vans" where organs can be easily harvested.
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Worse than my darkest nightmare: Binyam Mohamed speaks out about his illegal imprisonment and torture at Guantánamo Bay.
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A World Enslaved - How to buy a slave in five hours. - There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history.
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Dick Cheney defends US interrogation methods which included torture.
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Amnesty International: Tasers have killed almost 350 people in the US in the last seven years.
13
China launches major crackdown on dissidents.
14
Hunger and poverty statistics in America.
15
Report: 1 in 8 Americans went hungry last year.
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Lord Black, serving a 6 1/2-year sentence for defrauding millions from his former media empire: “The U.S. is now a carceral state that imprisons eight to 12 times more people per capita than the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany or Japan."
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European Union in 'frightening' grab for personal information according to 60-page report from civil liberties watchdog Statewatch.
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Britons have been "stripped" of their civil liberties amid an "atmosphere of panic" over the threat from terrorism, according to the novelist John le Carré.
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At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office.
20
Amnesty International Report for 2008 on Human Rights in the United States.
21
Police misconduct at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
22
When COINTELPRO Came to Town - Maryland State Police target activities that were legal, nonviolent and constitutionally protected.
23
Criminalising Dissent - US states are spying on political activists and classifying them as terrorists in order to stifle protest.
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Britain's freedoms under threat from 'Big Brother security state', warns Director of Public Prosecutions.
25
Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?
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