In 2021, a prisoner smuggled videos out of a Russian prison, revealing some of the worst torture ever seen from Russia. BBC Eye investigates the story behind this alleged horrific prisoner abuse.
New evidence uncovered in Russia’s most high-profile political assassination.
How a group of young women exposed the identity of their torturer - a police officer.
In September 2021 Sophia Huang Xueqin and a fellow activist disappeared.
BBC News Arabic uncovers the deadly impact of the oil giants' toxic air pollution on children and the planet.
Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.
BBC investigation reveals the secrets behind some of the world's biggest tea companies.
Investigation into a highly sophisticated scam involving criminal gangs, modern-day slavery and victims around the world who have lost millions of dollars.
Following a year-long investigation, investigative reporter Simona Weinglass delves into the murky world of online investment scams in an attempt to track down the men at the centre of a billion-dollar crime syndicate.
Africa Eye investigates a rise in child sexual abuse and incest in northern Uganda.
Africa Eye investigates cases of FGM in Sierra Leone.
Africa Eye investigates how members of the LGBT community in Nigeria are targeted by criminal gangs who pose as potential dates on popular apps.
BBC Eye investigates websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually assaulting women on trains, buses and other crowded public places across East Asia.
The story of a disturbing online community, the internet sleuths that hunted down the perpetrators and the race to save baby monkey Mini.
How Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy got hooked on amphetamines.
Lea has become a beacon of hope for sickle cell sufferers across Africa, battling the stigmas surrounding the disease and the authorities who fail to provide adequate care.
Africa Eye investigates a leading anti-slavery charity and their West African operation.
With unprecedented access, BBC Eye explores the world of pro-Russian ultra-nationalists in Serbia, which has long been torn between East and West.
With life expectancy increasing, many African families are turning to care homes for help. Are the elderly getting the care they need?
A year long undercover investigation by BBC News Arabic has uncovered allegations of widespread sexual abuse and coercion by spiritual healers.
BBC Africa Eye investigates the rise of xenophobia in South Africa and the violent targeting of migrants. Reported by Ayanda Charlie.
Your phone is private. Or is it? A BBC investigation exposes the blackmail scam causing misery in India.
Africa Eye's Khadidiatou Cissé, travels to Gabon to investigate one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in the history of football.
Nearly twenty years ago the half-naked body of a Thai woman was found by walkers in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales in England. The autopsy proved inconclusive.
Corporal punishment in Kenyan schools has been banned for over twenty years. Yet teachers are beating their students on a daily basis and the consequences can be fatal. BBC Africa Eye’s Tom Odula goes on a journey to investigate the extent of the problem and what can be done to address it.
BBC Africa Eye revisits Nairobi to find out what impact the broadcast of the 2020 investigation 'The Baby Stealers' had in Kenya's fight against child trafficking.
Five people from Gaza document their struggle to survive the war, using their phones to record stories of loss and resilience in a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Thousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion. But what of those who decided military service was not for them?
An estimated seven women die every day from unsafe abortions in Kenya. BBC Africa Eye investigates the battle for abortion rights in a country where unregulated terminations are a leading cause of maternal deaths, claiming the lives of over 2000 women each year.
How the hidden toxic air pollution of the oil giants is spreading hundreds of kilometres, putting the health of millions of people at risk in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq.
A VHS tape of a preacher performing ‘miracles’ changes two teenagers’ lives forever.
Trapped in TB Joshua’s church in Lagos, his disciples are drawn deeper into his abuse.
Joshua’s church guest house collapses, killing 116 people. Could this disaster expose him?
The story of an elite Russian Marine Brigade during the battle for Vuhledar in Ukraine.
BBC Arabic's Nawal Al-Maghafi reveals how the UAE hired mercenaries to conduct targeted assassinations of its political enemies in Yemen, with American mercenaries starting the killings in 2015.
This film from BBC News Arabic follows three Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics in northern Gaza across the first month of the war, as they save lives in the area hardest hit by Israeli airstrikes.
Mayor of Freetown finds herself on the front line of a democratic crisis.
BBC Africa Eye investigates the trafficking of Malawian women into a life of servitude as domestic workers in Oman, and follows an extraordinary network of women who, working across three continents, are fighting to bring them home against often impossible odds.
Five years after the declaration of a national state of emergency over rape and sexual violence, Sierra Leone is still grappling with shocking levels of gender-based violence.
After protesting in Tehran Nika Shakarami never went home. Iran claimed she killed herself. But a purported confidential report details a killing and a cover up by security forces.
Amid a surge of military takeovers, worsening security and greater repression, nearly a third of Africa's nations are heading to the polls. Child of the rainbow nation - Nomsa Maseko - asks where democracy is now headed across the world's fastest growing continent.
Gaza reporter Adnan El-Bursh’s video diary sheds light on the immense challenges faced by Palestinian journalists in Gaza as they report on their war-torn homeland.
In South Korea K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But some led a double life, inhabiting a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, raped and humiliated were shared.
South Africa’s murder rate is now at a twenty year high – one of the highest in the world. There were more than twenty-seven thousand murders last year. With trust in the police falling, Ayanda Charlie meets the frontline communities who are fighting back.
As Kenya’s cost of living rises, so too does violent crime. Reporter Elijah Kanyi investigates the devastating human impact of illegal firearms in Kenya’s slums.
Top perfume brands may have "worst form of child labour" in their jasmine supply chains, considered one of the most valuable ingredients in some of the world's most iconic perfumes, a BBC Eye investigation reveals.
In the Central African Republic, one of Africa’s poorest countries, local sand diver Thomas Boa and Chinese construction manager Jianmin Luan struggle to improve their fortunes. They “eat bitter” today in the hope of a better tomorrow, but with no guarantees of what their futures may hold.
At least one elderly person loses their life every week in the name of witchcraft in Kenya’s stunning Kilifi coast. Africa Eye investigates the true motives behind these brutal acts, revealing that many are targeted by the very people who should be protecting them - their own families.
BBC Eye Investigations and BBC News Brasil uncover the truth behind the rise of wellness influencer and spiritual life coach, Kat Torres, and the international search for her trafficked followers.
BBC reports from Sudan’s forgotten conflict and investigate allegations of war crimes.
One of worst mass killers in South Africa’s history is free from prison. He is finally ready to speak; and 30 years on, his victims are still fighting for closure and justice.
Four female BBC presenters, who fled Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August 2021, are helping to bring education back to Afghan children. This is their story.
Extremist settlers are receiving money and land from powerful groups with ties to the Israeli government and are using it to build illegal settlement outposts, BBC Eye reveals.
30 years ago, a journalist in the Indian state of Bihar filmed a series of shocking confessions: midwives admitting they routinely murdered new-born baby girls. Using this unseen archive, BBC Eye explores the disturbing story of infanticide in rural India.
Cape Verdean rapper Ga DaLomba, reporting for BBC Africa Eye, investigates ‘Highway 10’ a transatlantic drug smuggling route from South America to Europe, via West Africa. He also searches for an alleged drug trafficker known as ‘Fox’ who Brazilian police believe is the mastermind of an operation to transport 1 tonne of cocaine.
More than 20,000 women are estimated to be engaged in sex work in Sierra Leone. For four years, film-maker Tyson Conteh was given unprecedented access to document the dangers that sex workers face in his hometown of Makeni.
It’s a crisis that has already featured exploding pagers, assassinations, and a massive ballistic missile strike. What for months has been a simmering border crisis between Israel and the forces of Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon has escalated into a much more deadly conflict.
A family home in Vuhledar, Ukraine, becomes the backdrop of three lives torn apart by war: Marina, a refugee; Olexii, a prisoner of war; and Fima, a Russian soldier.
BBC Africa Eye investigates what is fast becoming the world’s deadliest migration route: the perilous Atlantic crossing from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands.
Amid a backdrop of rising nationalism, police violence, and social tensions in France, some young French Africans are turning to the continent in search of, what they say, is a better life.
