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Shine A Light Investigative Journalism

Public interest journalism, based in the UK Shine A Light exposes injustice, state-sponsored abuse and neglect, and official lying.

Led by investigative reporters Clare Sambrook (winner Paul Foot Award) and Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi (Orwell prize nominee), Shine A Light digs deep and tells stories about people's lived experience. Working alongside lawyers, activists and campaigners, we provide intelligence and ammunition to people working for policy change. We publish first on openDemocracy. Let us know if you’d like to republi

sh any piece. From the archives:

· In a privatised children's prison a care worker restrained a boy who died; G4S promoted him.
· A woman deported for profit by a British government outsourcer stood naked on an airport runway and took an overdose.
· A minister who blamed food bank clients for their poverty lined his pockets using Parliamentary expenses.
· A single dad driving his son to school one day missed the JobCentre's call, so they docked him one week's money. Shine A Light sprang from an influential and hard-hitting campaign to end child detention. http://tiny.cc/8brhey

We investigate outsourcing & privatisation, the security industry, immigration detention & removals, prisons, death in state custody, public spending cuts, legal aid. You can find all our articles here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/collections/shine-light

18/08/2018

Rashan, a young black Londoner, died under police restraint. A retired Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police — and Rashan’s great uncle — examines the visual evidence. Shine A Light Exclusive.

09/05/2018

Workers and volunteers at help guide lone children through UK’s hostile asylum system.

One sunny Saturday advised 13 child victims of trafficking, violence, blood feuds.

One boy, fleeing a blood feud, saw his uncle shot in front of him, spoke of su***de. Asylum denied. Appeal dismissed. Try calling his mobile. Just rings out.

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One Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.

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