Blood Parliament — BBC Africa Eye

About the investigation

• Publisher: BBC News Africa (BBC Africa Eye).
• Subject: shootings of demonstrators around Kenya's Parliament on 25 June 2024, during protests against the Finance Bill.
• Method: open-source visual investigation — videos and photographs taken by protesters, journalists and bystanders, cross-referenced against geolocation and time.
• Focus: identifying who fired live ammunition, from where, and under what chain of authority.
• The video should be watched in full; this page is a guide, not a substitute.

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A brief original summary

On 25 June 2024, demonstrators gathered around Kenya's Parliament in Nairobi during the largely youth-led protests against the Finance Bill. During the day, live ammunition was used against people in and around the Parliament precinct, and demonstrators were killed. Blood Parliament is BBC Africa Eye's open-source investigation into what happened, who fired, from where, and under what chain of authority. The programme cross-references videos and photographs taken by protesters, journalists and bystanders with time and location data.

This summary is written for this website. It does not reproduce the BBC's narration or script. For the actual investigation, watch the documentary above.

A note on open-source visual investigation

Open-source visual investigations combine publicly available material — social-media posts, news footage, satellite imagery, weather data — and verify each piece against known times and places. This method has been used by BBC Africa Eye, Bellingcat, Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps and others in cases where official accounts are contested.

Follow-up timeline

• Since publication: statements from IPOA, KNCHR and human-rights organisations have followed.
• Ongoing: IPOA investigations and any related ODPP charging decisions remain live.
• Note: specific developments will be added here as they can be sourced. This is an editorial placeholder for anything not yet verified.

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