The Fourth Estate
The Fourth Estate Podcast takes you beyond the headlines of Ghana’s most impactful investigative journalism.
Produced by The Fourth Estate, a non-profit public interest project of the Media Foundation for West Africa, the podcast opens up the reporting that has triggered investigations, prosecutions and difficult national conversations about power, accountability and justice. With a strong focus on corruption, governance, the environment, health and human rights, each episode deepens public understanding of issues that directly affect people’s lives.
This is where listeners hear the full story. We go behind the scenes with the journalists who broke major investigations, speak to sources who entrusted us with their experiences, and revisit stories that continue to shape public policy and democratic accountability in Ghana.
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The Fourth Estate
Death in Detention: Suspected Killings in Ghana's Police Custody
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Investigations by The Fourth Estate revealed that over a five-year period, at least 19 people died while being detained by the Ghana Police Service. Four of those deaths, according to the police, were suicides. But families of the deceased suspects have rejected the claims.
In the first of our two-part documentary, Death in Detention: Suspected Killings in Ghana's Police Custody, Joojo Cobbinah and Edmund Kofi Boateng speak with the families of three suspects who died under questionable circumstances while in police custody. The families are still fighting for justice and demanding answers about how their relatives died.