Each year in the US, tens of thousands of Black women and girls are involved in disappearance cases, but very few of these stories will ever receive mainstream media attention. In the case of Lauren Smith-Fields, a 23-year-old Black woman found dead in her Connecticut apartment on December 12, national news outlets eventually picked up…… Read More
The UK government has published a redacted version of an eagerly awaited report on claims of lockdown-breaking parties at the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The document was submitted to Downing Street on Monday by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated a series of revelations about boozy get-togethers held while the government told…… Read More
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, promised the conflict in Tigray would be quick and easy. But a year on, the fighting is intensifying, with reports of torture, rape and other atrocities. The UN has approved an independent investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, but Ethiopia says it won’t co-operate.…… Read More
The Take discusses how Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposed a criminal link to Bangladesh’s leader.… Read More
An elite police unit in Bangladesh is being accused of hundreds of extrajudicial killings, over several years. It has drawn international concern, including calls from US senators for sanctions. People who say their loved ones are missing, tortured or killed are desperate for answers. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Dhaka. – Subscribe to our…… Read More
Bangladesh anti Democratic govt is killing people like Birds…It says it is trying people for crime against Humanity. In reality, Government itself is doing crime against humanity by ordering police for mass killing. Army has been deployed as Police and border guard agency has failed to control law and order. Because these force is being…… Read More
Earlier this year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in western Myanmar. The authorities charged three Muslim men. A week later, 10 Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next was hidden from the outside world. Bloodshed pitted Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their homes, which were burned down…… Read More
Somalia’s modern history is a tale of independence, prosperity and democracy in the 1960s, military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s – followed by a desperate decline into civil war and chaos almost ever since. The effect of the war has been to scatter the Somali people in their millions to refugee camps and neighbouring…… Read More
Want to stay on top of all the news you actually care about? http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Otis Johnson went to jail at the age of 25. When he got out at 69, he rejoined a world that was starkly different from the one he remembered. This is his story. Last year, we met Otis Johnson at a…… Read More