Eye Investigations

The daughter of Kenya’s anti-colonial insurgency leader, Dedan Kimathi, searches for her father’s remains while fighting for land rights for forgotten veterans.

On a quiet Sunday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a residential building in Lebanon, killing 73 people. Nawal Al-Maghafi investigates who they were and why the building was hit.

During the Iran-Iraq War, thousands of Iranian children were sent to the front lines. Through deeply personal testimonies, former child soldiers share their untold stories with the BBC World Service.

After a Saudi trans woman's death went viral, BBC Eye investigates the final months of her life and the claim that she was misled into returning to Saudi Arabia from the US.

For more than a decade, West Africa has been in the grip of an opioid crisis. But who’s making these illegal, addictive pills? BBC World Service goes undercover to find out.

On TikTok live streams, girls as young as 15 are selling sexual content. BBC Africa Eye investigates to find out who is profiting.

Investigation into Chinese police use of psychiatric hospitals to silence critics, hearing from people who dared protest only to be drugged and labelled mentally ill.

BBC Africa Eye goes undercover to track down rogue relocation agents who squeeze thousands of pounds from aspiring migrants with the false promise of a job in the UK.

With unprecedented access inside Darfur, BBC World Service investigates allegations of genocide carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s civil war.

China’s cosmetic surgery industry is booming - but the surge in demand has led to a shortage of qualified practitioners and licensed clinics.

This film reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. Its campaign against the militant PKK group has killed Iraqi Kurdish civilians and forced farmers off their land.

In Hong Kong’s new “patriots-only” era, anonymous informing is now the norm. BBC Eye investigates how the security law reshaped the city after mass calls for democracy.

In 2024, a protest at Kenya’s legislature was ended by the gunfire of security forces. To this day, those shooters’ faces have remained hidden. BBC World Service exposes the men responsible.

Cameroonian journalist Blaise Eyong exposes the violent realities of the Anglophone Crisis —a conflict that has gripped the country's two English-speaking regions for nearly a decade.

Eye Investigations examines evidence of targeted abductions and assassinations by the Iranian regime abroad, and the links to one man – Iranian organised crime boss Naji Sharfi Zindashti.

Russia’s citizen informers target critics of the war in Ukraine. They work in secret or in public. Their victims face prosecution, creating an atmosphere of fear.

Three years after Sidhu Moose Wala was killed, BBC Eye investigates the murder that shocked India - and asks how he ended up on the wrong side of the country’s most feared gang.

BBC Eye investigates the popular uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 2024, when 36 days of protest ended in bloodshed.

In just three months last year, 79 children died through gunshot wounds or stabbings on SA's Western Cape. Police reported 263 gang murders. Africa Eye investigates Cape Town gang violence.

Africa Eye uncovers child sex trafficking in Kenya’s transit town Maai Mahiu and follows one woman, 'Baby Girl', who rescues girls from abuse and exploitation.

In August 1978, Musa al-Sadr, the Lebanese Shia leader, vanished during a visit to Libya. BBC Eye presents significant new evidence that may hold the clue to the cleric's fate.

Inside Russia’s teenage mephedrone market : BBC Eye meets the addicts, dealers, smugglers and police battling the brutal synthetic drug market.

How hundreds of children were held in global donation-supported orphanages by the sanctioned Assad regime in order to extort their relatives and why many have never been found.

Over the past year, BBC Eye Investigations has collected video diaries documenting the lives of some of the people who chose to stay in the city, capturing the deeply personal moments of those on the front line as President Trump's stance on the war in Ukraine shifts.

When the mysterious death of a 23-year-old Ugandan in Dubai goes viral, she becomes the face of the disturbing #DubaiPortaPotty. Behind the rumours lies an even darker reality.

BBC Eye goes undercover in a fake news network spreading propaganda in Moldova.

Africa Eye investigates South Africa’s underground psychedelic therapy industry, where the pursuit of healing can have devastating consequences.

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a miner digs for his dreams hoping the “grey gold” of coltan, used in much of today’s electronics, can bring his family back together.