Panel: Prisoners of Dissent. Locked Up For Exposing Crimes

PRISONERS-OF-DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes. The 11th Event of the Disruption Network Lab Panel with Annie Machon (former MI5 intelligence officer, UK/BE), Silvanos Mudzvova (Artist Protection Fund fellow in residency at The University of Manchester, ZWE/UK), Magnus Ag (senior program officer, Freemuse, DK/DE). Moderated by Annegret Falter (chair Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE). Final Q&A with the speakers and CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou. Presented in collaboration with the Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., this panel reflects on the political, legal, social and personal consequences of whistleblowing and truth-telling. Speakers are Annie Machon, a former intelligence officer for the UK's Security Service MI5 who helped blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies; Silvanos Mudzvova, artist and truth-teller persecuted for staging his one-man play 'Missing Diamonds, I Need My Share', criticising Zimbabwe’s cash crisis and $15 billion USD raised from diamond sales that has gone missing; and international human rights advocate Magnus Ag, who works as senior programme officer at Freemuse, an international civil society organisation advocating and defending the right to artistic freedom worldwide. Moderated by Annegret Falter, chair of the Whistleblower Network of Germany, the panel presents personal experiences of repression and detention, and analyses the meaning of 'social agreement' in the information society, debating the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual, as well as discussing new forms of distributed social justice. CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou will join the debate after the presentations. www.disruptionlab.org/prisoners-of-dissent (http://www.disruptionlab.org/prisoners-of-dissent) Photo: Thomas Schmidt Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com