Anonymous sources

Channel 4 News



UN Human Rights Council urges Sri Lankan accountability - Channel 4 News
Those who have spoken to Channel 4 News chose to remain anonymous owing to widespread fears of recrimination. Human rights groups say that abductions, disappearances and killings are still commonplace in Sri Lanka. Arbitrary arrest and torture in ...
March 22, 2012


Kofi Annan to set out 'last chance' for Syria's Assad - Channel 4 News
Syria blogger "Sasa", who did not wish to be identified, told Channel 4 News there are two solutions to this crisis - "guns or words". He said: "The west has made it clear that it won't intervene or arm the rebels, but at the same time it refuses to ...
March 16, 2012


Four blasts kill at least 25 in Baghdad - Channel 4 News
One police officer at the scene of the Sadr City explosion, who declined to be named, said: "There was a group of day labourers gathered, waiting to be hired for work. Someone brought his small motorcycle and parked it nearby. ...
January 5, 2012


Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB takeover 'in disarray' - Channel 4 News
A source close to Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, said it was not now clear how he could proceed with a judgement on the takeover of BSkyB by News Corporation because the dynamics of Britain's media market had changed. "We're going to have to wait ...
July 7, 2011


Libya: Mountain villagers facing "starvation" - Channel 4 News
An anonymous source told Channel 4 News that the situation in the area has developed to a point where Libyan women, children and the elderly are suffering from potential starvation. As well as the growing difficulty in transporting supplies of food and ...
April 20, 2011


Sexually Transmitted Infections 'increasing' - Channel 4 News
One 15-year-old from Surrey, who did not want to be identified, told Channel 4 News that she thought sex education at her school was adequate: "I think we ...
August 25, 2010


Spy college: secret agent recruiting hotspots - Channel 4 News
An anonymous source, who graduated from Oxford in the 1980s, has told Channel 4 News about one such approach. He explained: "I did the Foreign Office exam ...
July 2, 2010


UN condemns Pakistan over Bhutto death - Channel 4 News
The report says an anonymous source told UN investigators that decision was taken after the police chief, Saud Aziz, received a call from army headquarters, ...
April 16, 2010


Questions or suggestions