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OWNI met with Kim Tae-Jin, a survivor of a North Korean prison camp that according to the regime doesn’t exist. Working with satellite images provided by human rights organisations, Kim and other survivors are helping to map the camps.

OWNI has obtained evidence that officials of the French embassy in Iran burned their own diplomatic archives in December. The extraordinary action, which took place in the embassy’s swimming pool, followed the storming of the UK embassy in November.

In recent weeks the head of the Taliban in Pakistan and a senior Islamic militant in Somalia were killed, apparently by US drone strikes. OWNI examines the increasing prevalence of unmanned aircraft and targeted killings in Obama’s war on terror.

Documents revealed by OWNI and Wikileaks last week exposed the surveillance technology currently on the market. OWNI takes you through an average day under surveillance – where your phone, your computer and your networks can all be used to spy on you.

Two years ago, an Algerian CERN physicist became the perfect target for antiterrorism à la française. Today, he’s still in prison. And nobody seems to care.

As the Internet is creating an open government trend, how do states – especially those notorious for corruption – release their own public data?

The Union for the Mediterranean’s intentions was to build a stronger diplomatic relationship between the EU countries and North Africa. Since the fall of Ben Ali and Mubarak, critics are noting the weaknesses in mixing democracies with authoritarian governments.