Britain’s High Court is set to determine whether the UK Government, which sanctioned "systematic violence" in the detention camps, is liable for the torture of the Mau Mau people between 1952 and 1961. Four Kenyans, all now in their 70s and 80s, are taking legal action against the British government and demanding that it pay roughly £2 million into a welfare fund for the hundreds of victims still alive.

The government is arguing there is too great of a time delay since the atrocities and can no longer be held responsible. The victim’s legal team has responded by saying that the case has only recently come to light because the Foreign Office withheld crucial documents and kept them as Britain’s "guilty secret.". Read the full story.