[liberationtech] Death for Dancing and Mobile Phones in Pakistan

[Arzak Khan]

Death for Dancing and Mobile Phones in Pakistan Creating videos
using mobile phone can be spontaneous and explicit but like with all emerging
technologies there is the potential for misuse and at times the social
repercussion can be colossal especially in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society
like Pakistan. The recent Kohistan video scandal being one where four women were condemned to death by a tribal jirga for clapping and singing in a wedding ceremony
along with two men.  More herehttp://telecologist.blogspot.com/2012/06/death-for-dancing-and-mobile-phones-in.html  Cheers! Arzak  		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/attachments/20120606/c0359c4d/attachment.html>