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Viktoriia Project

Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali

For more than three years in Mali, Wagner mercenaries have detained and tortured civilians in secret prisons located in military bases, according to Forbidden Stories’ investigation.

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A Prominent Palestinian Journalist Still Held in Administrative Detention Without Clear Evidence

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Viktoriia Project

How Russia Secretly Disappears Thousands of Ukrainian Civilians

Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories have vanished into thin air.

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Under surveillance

Suspicious tenders and spying on journalists: a small Serbian town in the grip of corruption

FAR and Forbidden Stories investigated the practices of the mayor of Dimitrovgrad.

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Gaza Project

A Prominent Palestinian Journalist Still Held in Administrative Detention Without Clear Evidence

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News

Forbidden Stories takes over the Paris metro

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News

Rwanda Classified: The Kagame regime has maintained its disinformation habit

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News

Event: Step behind the scenes of these forbidden stories

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News

WhatsApp trumps NSO in court: A historical ruling amid political change

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News

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“The Azerbaijani government needed the COP to cover up the question of media freedom”

Investigations

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Viktoriia Project

“A Place Where You Regret Being Born”: Inside Russia’s Taganrog Prison

When Yelyzaveta Shylyk was detained and questioned by Russian military forces, her interrogators threatened...

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Viktoriia Project

Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was pronounced dead in Russian captivity in October 2024, after...

Viktoriia Roshchyna ukrainian journalist

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Viktoriia Project

Viktoriia Roshchyna, lost in “the gray zone”

Her investigation into the thousands of Ukrainian civilians illegally detained by Russia cost her her...

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Gaza Project

Gazawood: Israeli NGO links account to large-scale disinformation

The Israeli X account called Gazawood claims to expose alleged Palestinian “lies” from Gaza. But Forbidden...

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Gaza Project

In Gaza, journalists filming with drones are in the Israeli army’s crosshairs

Of the few journalists who used drones to document the destruction wrought by the Israeli army, at least...

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Gaza Project

No Safe Zones: How Fadi Al-Wahidi Got Shot in the Neck While Wearing a Press Vest

On October 9, 2024, Fadi Al-Wahidi was reporting alongside a crew of journalists from Al Jazeera, Al...

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Articles

Journalists killed in Gaza: 12 international media outlets unite to investigate and take forward Palestinian journalists’ stories

After the Gaza Project revealed how some were targeted by the Israeli Army, Forbidden Stories and its...

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Gaza Project

“Where International Law Goes to Die”: Mechanisms Blocking Justice for Journalists and Civil Society

Since 2001, Israeli fire has claimed the lives of nearly 200 journalists—170 of them since the war on...

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SafeBox Network

Through the SafeBox Network, some of the world’s most threatened journalists are securing their sensitive information with Forbidden Stories.

If they are abducted, imprisoned or assassinated, Forbidden Stories and its partners will be able to continue their investigations and publish them worldwide.

Gilberto Ruiz Díaz

Mexico

Óscar Parra

Colombia

Denise Kavira Kyalwahi

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pavel Vega

Guatemala

Gabriela Pinasco

Ecuador

Pinsen Mora

Colombia

Noël Kouadio Konan

Ivory Coast

Heridas Abiertas

Mexico

Claudia Julieta Duque

Colombia

Ivan Brehaut

Peru

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Isidore Kouwonou

Togo

Jordache Diala

Democratc Republic of the Congo

Bakary Gamalo Bamba

Guinea

Pluma Digital Noticias

Mexico

Media Foundation for West Africa

Ghana

Alina Manrique

Ecuador

Virgile Ahouansè

Benin

Jonathan Cuevas

Mexico

IMEDIA

Haiti

Paulin Aganze

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Joseph Mbuyi

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Amalfi Rosales

Colombia

Febriana Firdaus

Indonesia

Benjamin Kasembe

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Are you a journalist under threat because of your reporting? Secure your information with Forbidden Stories.

Key figures

Since its creation, 90 media outlets have collaborated with Forbidden Stories.

150

A hundred and fifty journalists from 49 countries have worked on our investigations since 2017.

1,320

Our collaborative investigations have multiplied the reach of our forbidden stories by 1,320. That’s what we call the Streisand effect.

All our investigations

Corruption Cyber surveillance Spyware

Under surveillance: local corruption and a journalist spied on in Serbia

Human rights War

Viktoriia Project

Human rights Starvation War

Gaza Project

Trafic

Sanction Breakers

Corruption Environment Human rights

Deforestation in Cambodia: Revelations on a deadly code of silence

Drug cartels War

Captagon Connection

Human rights

In Turkmenistan, the death of a journalist lifts the veil on forced labor in cotton fields

Disinformation Influence

The Propaganda Machine

Assassination plots Cyber surveillance Influence War

Rwanda Classified

Corruption Environment

Stolen Lands

Our mission is unique

Forbidden Stories is an international network of journalists whose mission is to pursue the investigations of other reporters who have been silenced.

Maria Ressa

2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate & CEO of Rappler

“All they want in killing a journalist, or in attacking a journalist, is to stop the story”

Alfredo Guachiré

Paraguayan journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

“For my safety (...) I turn to the organization Forbidden Stories to protect my investigations”

Khadija Ismayilova

Azerbaijani investigative journalist

“What you are suggesting is creating a newsroom for journalists who have no press freedom. You will get fantastic stories“

Omer Benjakob

Journalist at Haaretz, who collaborated with Forbidden Stories on the Pegasus Project and Story Killers investigations

"Collaborations are important because they allow us to pull our intellectual resources, our tools and our skills to do investigations that were impossible to achieve five years ago"

Fabrice Arfi

Head of Investigations at Mediapart

“The finest project of investigative journalism, in solidarity against censorship”

Jonathan Cuevas

Mexican journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

“The enemies of the press will think twice before committing such crimes”

Bastian Obermayer

2017 Pulitzer Prize winner

“Even if Forbidden Stories rescues just a handful of investigations that fall into a sort of limbo each time a journalist is jailed or killed, it will already be a great victory for citizens”

Ayodele Samuel

Nigerian journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

“Since I joined the SafeBox Network, I have been confident that should anything happen to me as a journalist on the field, my jobs are protected and somebody can take it up from there”

Columbia Journalism Review

“Forbidden Stories establishes itself as a new player in a global reporting-network scene that has generally been a bright light in a dark period for journalism around the world”

Hala Nasreddine

Head of Investigations at Daraj, Lebanese media outlet and member of the SafeBox Network

“Announcing that our information is secure has a deterrent effect on attempts of repression, silencing or threat”