Reprisals

Sex, lies, and videotape at the U.N.

Sujets: 
Whistleblowers, Reprisals, Movies, United Nations
Scores: 
0

Colum Lynch – July 28, 2011

After weeks of internal deliberations, the United Nations recently held a pair of private viewings of a controversial new film, The Whistleblower, which explores U.N.  complicity in sex crimes in Bosnia over the past two decades.

Based on real events and reviewed last month by Turtle Bay, the film recounts how U.N. peacekeepers became involved in the illegal sex trade in Bosnia in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Top officials have been concerned that the film's imminent release -- it hits theaters in Los Angeles and New York on August 5 -- could harm the institution's international reputation.

Health impacts of whistleblowing

Sujets: 
Harassment, Reprisals, Research, Mental health injuries
Scores: 
0

The following paper published in the British Medical Journal in 1993,  documents a study of health impacts on thirty-five whistleblowers.

Among the findings: only ten had a full-time job; fourteen had seen their income reduced by three-quarters or more; seventeen had considered suicide.

Deutsche Bank Goes After Whistleblower’s Son

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Financial crisis, White-collar crime, Financial industry
Scores: 
3

Eric Carlson – May 20, 2011

In July 2008, Florida lawyer Lynn Szymoniak received foreclosure papers on her home. Szymoniak had encountered financial difficulties after spending several years caring for her ailing mother while simultaneously fighting her own health problems, and failed to re-negotiate her adjustable-rate mortgage with her lender.

But Szymoniak, a former Certified Fraud Examiner with FBI training, noticed something strange on her foreclosure documents. The company servicing her mortgage was located in Dallas, nowhere near Linda Green, the Georgia woman whose signature validated Lynn's mortgage assignment. So Szymoniak began accumulating and comparing mortgage papers from county recording offices across the country in an attempt to make sense of the bizarre documentation.

Canada deports alleged assassin back to Burundi

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Corruption, Africa
Scores: 
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Stewart Bell – May 13, 2011

Canada has deported a Burundian man wanted in his home country for his alleged role in the assassination of an anti-corruption watchdog who was investigating arms trafficking to rebels in the Congo.

Gabriel Nduwayo, who came to Montreal two years ago and claimed refugee status, was escorted back to Burundi by Canadian officials Wednesday. He was arrested by local authorities upon his arrival at Bujumbura airport.

Suspected assassin of anti-corruption official deported

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Corruption, Africa
Scores: 
3

May 13, 2011

Canadian authorities have deported a Burundi national accused in connection with the assassination of a high-ranking anti-corruption official April 9, 2009.

Gabriel Nduwayo was returned to his homeland this week where he will face trial on the allegations, the Canada Border Services Agency reported Friday.

Russia investigates anti-corruption activist

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Corruption, Russia
Scores: 
2
Alexei Navalny

May 10, 2011

MOSCOW — Russia's leading anti-corruption whistleblower is facing an investigation for damaging interests of a timber company, Russian officials said Tuesday.

Lawyer Alexei Navalny is being probed for allegedly using his position of a regional governor's adviser to force a timber company into an unfavorable deal, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Tuesday. The committee is Russia's top investigative body.

People smuggler whistleblower fears for his life

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Human trafficking, Immigration
Scores: 
2

Karen Michelmore – May 2, 2011

An Iraqi refugee who exposed people smugglers in Indonesia on ABC TV's Four Corners program says his life is in constant danger. He says he has been punished by the refugee agency UNHCR and abandoned by Australia.

Four Corners last night won a Logie award for most outstanding public affairs report for Smugglers' Paradise. Four Corners executive producer Sue Spencer used the program's win to highlight the plight of Hussain Nasir, who remains in Indonesia at risk from the people smugglers and officials he exposed.

Alberta Tories won't punish author of threatening letter sent to Calgary doctor

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Health care
Scores: 
3
Dr. Lloyd Maybaum

Jamie Komarnicki, with files from Jason Fekete – March 22, 2011

Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky says he will not discipline a senior health superboard bureaucrat who allegedly intimidated a local psychiatrist critical of the government scaling back mental health services in the new south Calgary hospital.

As the opposition continued to demand a public inquiry – and the Wildrose Alliance called for a second emergency debate in as many weeks in the legislature to discuss growing health woes – Zwozdesky denied health care professionals are being silenced.

The dangers of whistle-blowing in India

Sujets: 
Reprisals, Access to information, India
Scores: 
2

Soutik Biswas – March 22, 2011

Whistle-blowing can nearly destroy you in India, as Salim Baig found out for himself. Until three years ago, he practised ayurvedic medicine in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district, a place better known for its intricate brass work than its sleuthing citizens.

But the softly spoken Mr Baig, publisher of a small newspaper, riled the local authorities so much with his questions that he had to flee his town.

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