Donate to defeat the enemies of the press

We can already tell you this: in 2025, we will publish more investigations than ever before. To achieve this, we need your support.

We are currently working across all continents alongside our partners. Always with the same goal: to uncover what the enemies of the press want to keep hidden.

These upcoming investigations address some of the most pressing issues of our time. In 2024, we shed light on environmental scandals in Azerbaijan, Russian disinformation campaigns in the Central African Republic, Rwanda’s repressive regime, and the targeting of journalists in Gaza.

In India, we continued the work of journalist Shashikant Warishe, who was killed while investigating land speculation. His murderer believed that his wrongdoings would go unnoticed. He was wrong. Our collaborative investigation, conducted with The Indian Express, uncovered documents connecting Warishe’s accused killer to an oil refinery project and reached an audience 4,700 times larger than the slain journalist’s usual audience. The Streisand effect is in our DNA.

Altogether, our investigations reached over 120 million people this year in a dozen languages, thanks to the 30 media partners we collaborated with.

At the ARIJ Forum – the major gathering of investigative journalists from the Middle East – in early december, UN Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Irene Khan, concluded her speech with Forbidden Stories’ slogan: “Killing the journalist won’t kill the story.“  “The story will be told,” she added.

Let’s prove her right. For this, we need your support. Donate.