Right to protest: investigating violations using social media

Social media is flooded with protester-filmed footage, often showing abuses by police and security forces. Yet vital evidence is frequently missed, lost, or left unverifiable—especially in low-resource, high-risk contexts. Amnesty International investigators, legal experts, and frontline partners will share practical methods for finding, archiving, and analyzing visual evidence, and will demo OSINT workflows and tools. Drawing on recent investigations from Mozambique, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we’ll showcase steps for using visual evidence to document human rights violations.
The session is hands-on: participants will share challenges and solutions from their contexts and help refine a lightweight protest-verification playbook. Attendees leave with actionable best practices, a curated tool list and templates they can adapt to future protests.
Organised in association with the Evidence Lab at Amnesty International.