Doha, Qatar, 12 December 2011:
Kenya’s judicial system is riddled with corruption, according to this week’s episode of the groundbreaking Al Jazeera English series, Africa Investigates, whichshows that a disturbing number of key players in the legal system can be bribed or bought.
Premiering on 14 December 2011, Kenya: Justice For Sale shows that poor Kenyans are being priced out of the justice system in a country where bribery has become the norm. According to a recent report by Transparency International, nearly ten per cent of all bribes find their way to the judiciary.
In 2003 a radical shakeup of the judiciary saw 23 judges and 82 magistrates sacked over high-profile corruption allegations. More reforms are promised but, as this final episode in the current series of Africa Investigateswill reveal, so far little has changed within the Kenyan judiciary’s culture of corruption.
Kenya: Justice For Sale screens daily from Wednesday, 14 December 2011, at the following times GMT: Wednesday: 22:30; Thursday: 09:30; Friday: 03:30; Saturday: 16:30; Sunday: 22:30; Monday: 09:30; Tuesday: 03:30; Wednesday: 16:30.
About Africa Investigates
Africa Investigates is a groundbreaking new series that puts flesh on Al Jazeera’s ambition to give voice to the voiceless.
To be an African investigative journalist can mean to face the risk of arrest, intimidation and even death. 23 journalists have been killed in Africa in 2011, according to The International News Safety Institute, so Al Jazeera English implementedstrict security protocols on the series, often running to more than 40 pages per film.
Executive producer Ron McCullagh says investigative journalists across Africa live with “a level of fear few journalists in the West would endure – the constant threat of arrest on jumped up charges, intimidation, death threats, the real threat of death itself; all part of the business of minding other people’s business in the interest of the public good… No reporter in the West faces such challenges. The work of these journalists represents the very best of our trade.”
For more information, visit http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/africainvestigates/.
You can watch and embed the series’ promo from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3im4HpdiWWQ.
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ABOUT AL JAZEERA ENGLISH
Al Jazeera English broadcasts live from Doha to more than 250 million households in over 130 countries.
Since its launch in 2006, Al Jazeera English has been recognized for its distinguished reporting and programming, being named “Best 24 Hour News Programme” at the annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival and Best News Channel three years running at the UK’s Freesat Awards. The channel has also received awards from The Royal Television Society, Amnesty International and YouTube and has received nominations for international Emmy awards in both the News and Current Affairs categories. In the past two years Al Jazeera English has received the Royal Television Society Awards as the 2009 and 2010 News Channel of the Year.
Al Jazeera English is screened across Africa, including:
· Angola (Zap TV, Channel 147)
· Botswana (MABC TV)
· Gambia (Gambia Radio and Television Services)
· Ghana (Infinity TV, Channel – 105; Metro TV; Multimedia; Skyy Digital TV; Smart TV; TV-3 Network; and WICENET)
· Kenya (Citizen TV; Freeview: GBS, Channel – 47 [Nairobi analogue], Channel – 15 [Nairobi digital]; Channel – 55 [Kisumu analogue]; Kiss TV; Nation TV; Star Africa; Stella; and Zuku, Channel – 511.)
· Madagascar (TVF, Channel – 4)
· Mauritius (London Satellite Systems)
· Malawi (Malawi TV)
· Morocco (Telecom)
· Mozambique (TIM, Soico TV)
· Namibia (Namibian Broadcasting Corporation)
· Nigeria (Delta Cable: Disc Broadcasting; HITV; Infinity TV – Channel – 105; Multimesh CAN; My TV; Star Africa; and Suburban Broadband)
· Rwanda (Star Africa)
· Sierra Leone (Microtel TV; Channel – 7)
· South Africa (Bay TV; Cape Town TV; DStv, Channel – 406; Soweto TV; and Top TV, Channel – 401)
· Tanzania (Coconut Digital, Channel – UHF 474, 514, 538 mhz; ITV)
· Uganda (Nation TV; Pearl Digital TV; and Smart TV)
· Zambia (CBC TV, Channel UHF 60; Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation)
Alternatively, you can watch online at http://watchaljazeera.com.
