Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi AFP/Getty Images Kenya’s crackdown on protesters over the last year has sullied its image as a beacon of democracy Kenya has been hit by a recent wave of repression, tarnishing its reputation as a beacon of democracy in East Africa. Critics fear that it is sliding down the path of...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As Anita Wolfe sat in the hallway of a Charleston, West Virginia, county courtroom, waiting to testify against the U.S. government, she thought of her dad, who first started working as a coal miner when he was around 12. She remembered...
Sima Kotecha Senior UK correspondent Paul Lynch Shared data unit BBC The National Forensics Archive houses millions of exhibits from criminal cases prior to 2012 Thousands of criminal cases – including some of the most serious violent and sexual offences – are collapsing every year because of lost, damaged or missing evidence, the BBC has...
Fresh investigations could be launched into 287 child sexual exploitation cases that had been dropped by local police forces, Yvette Cooper has told MPs. The home secretary said the cases had been handed to a national police taskforce which will look at whether to reopen them and “pursue any new lines of inquiry that have...
Jim Reed BBC News Reporting fromSupreme Court, London Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Parents of the deceased children heard doctors involved in their care could be named Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox In the past six months, two babies in Louisiana have died of pertussis, the disease commonly known as whooping cough. Washington state recently announced its...
Reuters Mark Daly BBC Scotland Disclosure More than 20 legal claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club have been settled for a seven-figure sum. About 30 former players had launched a class action against Celtic for damages. Thompsons Solicitors said that 70% of those cases had now been settled and that further settlements are...
