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The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi. The incident took place when Jyoti Singh, a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern, was beaten, gang-raped, and tortured in a private bus in which she was travelling ...
In November 2012 Dame Janet Smith called for evidence from people who were the subject of inappropriate sexual conduct by Savile on BBC premises, or on location for the BBC; people who knew of or suspected such conduct; anyone who raised concerns about Savile's conduct within the BBC; people who worked for or with Savile on programmes at the BBC between about 1964 and 2007, or who were ...
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013 [9] and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period. [10] Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by ...
BBC Radio 4, BBC Two. Release. 23 October 2021. ( 2021-10-23) Uncanny is a 2021 BBC Radio series created by Danny Robins featuring explorations of the paranormal and supernatural phenomena. The series is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and as a podcast on BBC Sounds. [1] A television version for BBC Two was first broadcast on 13 October 2023.
Child cruelty. Victoria Adjo Climbié (2 November 1991 – 25 February 2000) was an eight-year-old Ivorian girl who was tortured and murdered by her great-aunt and her great-aunt's boyfriend. Her death led to a public inquiry, and produced major changes in child protection policies in the United Kingdom. Born in Abobo, Côte d'Ivoire, Victoria ...
Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed ( Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in a suspected honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept an arranged marriage . Ahmed's parents were each imprisoned for a minimum of 25 years for ...
The World Today. BBC News Now. Impact. Verified Live, also called Verified Live with Matthew Amroliwala, is a news programme that premiered on both the UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 22 May 2023 as part of a refresh following the merger of the two news channels. [1] The programme is mainly hosted by Matthew Amroliwala.
HARDtalk. Question Time. Newsnight is the BBC 's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. It is broadcast weeknights at 22:30 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel; it is also available on BBC iPlayer.
4 ft 7 in (140 cm) Patrick Warren (b. 1985) and David Spencer (b. 1983) were two English schoolboys who disappeared on 27 December 1996 in the town of Solihull, near Birmingham. Although initially treated by the police as runaways, they are now presumed deceased. [1] Despite a BBC Crimewatch special report on the boys, along with numerous ...
The case has been verified by OHCHR and it was described in its June 2022 report on human rights in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. [61] Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on a 13 March beating and rape of a 31-year-old woman in the village of Mala Rohan in Kharkiv Raion , which at the time was controlled by the Russian Armed Forces.