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.| Forbidden Stories
In October 2024, the Israeli army made its third incursion into the Jabalia refugee camp since the start of its war in Gaza—a particularly severe deployment of violence resulting in mass casualties, including the deaths of two Palestinian journalists and injuries to two others.| Forbidden Stories
FAR and Forbidden Stories investigated the practices of the mayor of Dimitrovgrad. The post Suspicious tenders and spying on journalists: a small Serbian town in the grip of corruption appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
News Event: Step behind the scenes of these forbidden stories On February 13, in a Theater near the Champs-Elysées, we’ll unveil the behind-the-scenes of the incredible human adventure that is Forbidden Stories. In a unique production, blending actors and journalists from our network, we’ll bring to life the stories for which journalists lost theirs. The […]| Forbidden Stories
We can already tell you this: in 2025, we will publish more investigations than ever before. To achieve this, we need your support.| Forbidden Stories
When Yelyzaveta Shylyk, a teacher and recently-retired Ukrainian service member, was detained and questioned by Russian military forces in Luhansk, a city in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, her interrogators threatened to send her to a Russian prison camp. “They said that if I failed, I would go to a place where I would regret being born,” Shylyk remembered.| Forbidden Stories
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was pronounced dead in Russian captivity in October 2024, after being secretly held for months in Russian-occupied Ukraine and a Russian prison. In February 2025, her body was repatriated. Forbidden Stories investigated her detention and death, which came on the heels of a reporting trip to Zaporizhzhia, aimed at telling the stories of Ukrainian civilians unlawfully held by Russia.| Forbidden Stories
Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories have vanished into thin air. These “ghost prisoners” are whisked away by the occupying forces to informal places of detention, where they’re held outside any legal framework and tortured. Some are then transferred to the Russian prison system, where they languish without charges or serve trumped-up sentences. Forbidden Stories and its partners unveil this opaque system design...| Forbidden Stories
Her investigation into the thousands of Ukrainian civilians illegally detained by Russia cost her her life. 45 journalists continued her work.| Forbidden Stories
The Israeli X account called Gazawood claims to expose alleged Palestinian “lies” from Gaza. But Forbidden Stories and its partners have uncovered research from an Israeli NGO indicating that Gazawood does, in fact, practice online disinformation on a massive scale.| Forbidden Stories
On October 9, 2024, Fadi Al-Wahidi was reporting alongside a crew of journalists from Al Jazeera, Al Araby TV, and others, in the Al Saftawi area near Jabalia, when what they claim was an “Israeli quadcopter” initiated a chase that ended with Al-Wahidi being shot in the neck.| Forbidden Stories
After the Gaza Project revealed how some were targeted by the Israeli Army, Forbidden Stories and its partners have launched a new investigation about these reporters, killed or injured while on duty, especially those filming with drones.| Forbidden Stories
Since 2001, Israeli fire has claimed the lives of nearly 200 journalists—170 of them since the war on Gaza began. Yet, even in the most extreme cases, Israel has failed to hold anyone accountable.| Forbidden Stories
NSO Group is responsible for illegally installing spyware on phones, a California court ruled last December.| Forbidden Stories
As violence escalates in the DRC, Paul Kagame’s disinformation networks remain quite active.| Forbidden Stories
Three journalists from Abzas Media have been ill-treated in prison while COP29 is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. Editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi; reporters Nargiz Absalamova and Elnara Gasimova; and three other colleagues have been in prison for nearly a year.| Forbidden Stories
Are you threatened because of your journalistic investigations? We can help you by protecting your information via the SafeBox Network. This page will guide you through each step of this process.| Forbidden Stories
Safebox network What is the SafeBox Network? Forbidden Stories protects the information of threatened journalists. If they are imprisoned, abducted or murdered, Forbidden Stories and its international network of media partners will be able to continue their investigations and publish them worldwide. Français English Español العربية https://youtu.be/YNwEqrY98ZA All over the world, journalists are jailed, abducted […]| Forbidden Stories
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