State Crime, Digital Technology and Civil Resistance: The Mosireen Collective and the Politics of Visibility (Crimes of the Powerful)

Making state crime visible through acts of documentation, resistance and memory has become one of the defining struggles of the digital age.Focusing on Egypt’s Mosireen Collective, this book examines how citizens mobilised digital technologies to expose repression during and after the 2011 revolution.Mosireen’s videos spread rapidly, countering official propaganda while bearing witness to police brutality, torture, mass killings and the wider machinery of state violence, including judicial abuse.Their project, 858: An Archive of Resistance, launched in 2018, endures as one of the most extensive collections of revolutionary footage worldwide. Through Mosireen’s practice, this book shows how civil society responds when states commit crimes with impunity.It demonstrates how digital archives can function as counter-forensic tools: making violence visible, preserving memory and sustaining resistance even in the face of authoritarian resurgence.Drawing on theories of state crime, civil resis