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Articles Haïti

Smuggling, ill-gotten gains and suspected ties to gangs: In Haiti, the shady dealings of former senator Rony Célestin

Forbidden Sorties continued the investigation of Haitian journalist Néhémie Joseph, who was killed in 2019 while investigating the activities of former senator and businessman Rony Célestin.

Hopital Général Port-au-Prince attaque journalistes haitï

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Haïti

The Port-au-Prince hospital massacre: A symbol of the relentless advance of armed gangs in Haiti

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Haïti

In Haiti, the murder of a journalist who denounced corruption and a prosecutor above the law

Gary Tesse was murdered in 2022 after criticizing Les Cayes prosecutor Ronald Richemond, whom he accused of illegal practices. Forbidden Stories traveled to Haiti to continue Tesse’s investigation.

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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.

News

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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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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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Gaza Project

Endless horrors and relocations: In Jabalia, Fadi Al-Wahidi's unfinished reporting

In October 2024, the Israeli army made its third incursion into the Jabalia refugee camp since the start...

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Gaza Project

From Slander to Exile: Photographer Yasser Qudih Targeted for Doing His Job

On October 7, 2023, Gazan photographer Yasser Qudih photographed Hamas’ attack on Israel, prompting a...

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

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Mali

Anani Kwami Galley

Togo

Haruna Mohammed Salisu

Nigeria

Gilberto Ruiz Díaz

Mexico

Kátia Brasil

Brazil

Lady Ann Salem

The Philippines

Thierry Patrick Ondoua

Cameroon

L'Alternative

Togo

Ekemini Simon

Nigeria

Karla Lorena Lamas Contreras

Mexico

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Panama

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Benin

Miguel Silerio

Mexico

Alina Manrique

Ecuador

Marc-Evens Lebrun

Haiti

Vërstka

Russia

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Nigeria

Sahzara Sopian

Indonesia

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The Philippines

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

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Haiti: A State in Ruins, Predators in Power

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

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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

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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

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Jonathan Cuevas

Mexican journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

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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”