A drowned boy, an apology, an attack on ‘activist, left-wing human rights lawyers’

Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali

On 15 September 2016 the British government issued a public apology for the death of Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, an Iraqi teenager who drowned after being forced into a river by British soldiers.

Eight days later Prime Minister Theresa May attacked “vexatious claims” being brought against armed forces.