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About This Project
Summary
The Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) wanted to effectively communicate the brutality of riot police deployed by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government in response to Hong Kong citizens' peaceful protests over a new extradition law. HKAA partnered with Graphicacy to create three interlinked data visualizations categorizing actions by type and displaying where and when they took place. Different views innovatively show when, where, and what actions took place.
Goals & Objectives
HKAA wanted accurate reporting to preserve a historical record and support both public investigations and credibility in legal challenges. Records were derived from videos captured of the brutality and human rights violations to write an accurate history of events, contrary to the local government’s
Results & Impact
The HKAA preserves truth, supports legal accountability, aids public investigations, and cements the historical record. An activist said, “I can’t imagine how much work went into this. The HKAA is a great contribution to human rights, in Hong Kong and globally.”
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