البي بي سي العربية

A BBC News investigation has revealed how violent criminal gangs are finding, abusing and extorting people from the LGBT community they meet online in Egypt. Using masking technology to hide the identities of the people he meets, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin navigates the complex online and real-life world of people who identify as queer and who have been repeatedly targeted by a gang with violent viral video humiliations and police arrests.

In this undercover investigation, Nawal al-Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq. Some Shia clerics are using a controversial practice called ‘pleasure marriage’ to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp them out.

A joint BBC Arabic and BBC Newsnight six-month documentary investigation identifying Egyptian assets in the UK linked to former President Hosni Mubarak, his family and their associates. The BBC investigation reveals that these valuable assets in the UK have not yet been frozen by the British Government violating the asset freezing agreement signed by the UK and all EU countries in March 2011