Gaza Project Reading time : 5 min. Bird’s eye view : documenting Gaza from its skies Journalists filming with drones have been regularly killed or injured in Israeli strikes. One of them, Mahmoud Isleem Al-Basos, collaborated on the Gaza Project. To continue his work, Forbidden Stories and its partners used his drone footage to create […]| Forbidden Stories
Of the few journalists who used drones to document the destruction wrought by the Israeli army, at least five have been killed or seriously wounded by deliberate strikes| Forbidden Stories
Daphne Project Reading time: 7 min A decade‑long ban for Guernsey adviser tied to the family of an Azerbaijani oligarch Ginette Louise Blondel, a financial adviser based in Guernsey, was fined in March 2024 by the island’s financial services regulator for operating without the appropriate licence and failing in her duty of due diligence while […]| Forbidden Stories
7 media outlets are tracing the supply chain feeding organized crime groups in the region. The post Guns, Smugglers, and a Journalist’s Murder on the Paraguay-Brazil Border appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
Internal documents reveal how the Paraguayan Prosecutor’s Office failed to properly investigate the kingpin of the drug trafficking organization suspected of the murder. The post ‘Organized crime has infiltrated the Prosecutor’s office’: The killing of a journalist and the rot in Paraguay’s justice system appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
Eulalio “Lalo” Gomes Batista, a Paraguayan congressman and businessman, was killed in a 2024 police raid at his home. Internal documents obtained by Forbidden Stories and its partners reveal that authorities had been warned about his alleged ties to drug trafficking—including direct money transfers from and to companies linked to drug lords—as early as 2017, years before any formal investigation began. The post How a prominent politician and businessman’s fall exposed corruption in...| Forbidden Stories
Nineteen journalists have been killed in Paraguay – and two in Brazilian border towns – in roughly 30 years. Forbidden Stories and its partners took forward their investigations. The post Alianza Paraguay: Why Forbidden Stories launched a global investigation into organized crime appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
On Dec. 24, 2024, the 5 Segond gang attacked Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital, killing two journalists. Forbidden Stories investigated the massacre, exposing the impunity enjoyed by gangs in Haiti. The post The Port-au-Prince hospital massacre: A symbol of the relentless advance of armed gangs in Haiti appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
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. The post In Haiti, the murder of a journalist who denounced corruption and a prosecutor above the law appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
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.| Forbidden Stories
A leaked list of phone numbers reveals how Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime used Pegasus spyware sought to track political opponents and members of his own party.| Forbidden Stories
Rwanda Classified Français English Inside the repressive machinery of Paul Kagame’s regime Forbidden Stories and its partners examined the troubling circumstances of Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali’s death, and meanwhile pursued the investigation that put the journalist in authorities’ crosshairs. The journalists of Rwanda Classified also looked into the hidden side of Kagame’s regime. From […]| Forbidden Stories
As evidence of its interference in the eastern DRC mounts, Rwanda continues to evade United Nations sanctions due, in part, to the high number of Rwandan soldiers fighting under its banner.| Forbidden Stories
Conducted over several months and featuring previously unpublished material, our investigation confronts the volatility of official reports about Ntwali’s death.| Forbidden Stories
Investigating the deaths of Rwandan soldiers killed in North Kivu led to one journalist’s exile and possibly the death of another. We picked up their investigations.| Forbidden Stories
Forbidden Stories nomine 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. nomine A Prominent Palestinian Journalist Still Held in Administrative Detention Without Clear Evidence nomine […]| Forbidden Stories
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
At least 180 journalists around the world have been selected as targets by clients of the cybersurveillance company NSO Group, according to a new Forbidden Stories investigation, published today.| 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
Human rights activist Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” gave one of his first interviews with European media since being released from Rwandan prison.| Forbidden Stories
Behind Rwanda's gleaming image promoted in international forums, conferences and showrooms, is a hidden army of lobbyists, trolls and agents ready to smear any opposition.| Forbidden Stories
The murky murder of a Rwandan opposition figure and the deaths of two Belgians in South Africa are among the reasons Brussels is taking a firmer stance against Kigali.| 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
In the Sahel and the Central African Republic, Moscow’s disinformation agents spare no expense in manipulating public opinion. Forbidden Stories reveals the inner workings of their well-oiled propaganda machine.| Forbidden Stories
Forbidden Stories investigated the death of Chhoeung Chheng, a Cambodian journalist who was shot dead on his way home from reporting on a forest ravaged by illegal logging.| Forbidden Stories
Gaza Project We had to unite Almost 170 Palestinian journalists were killed in the Gaza Strip after Israel launched a war of retaliation for the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023. In June 2024, then in March 2025, Forbidden Storis coordinated the Gaza Project, gathering more than 50 journalists from 18 media outlets. We […]| Forbidden Stories
Even in post-Assad Syria, some investigations remain forbidden to Syrian journalists. This is the case of Captagon trafficking, manufactured in Syria and widely spread in the Middle East. Under Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a reporter was assassinated after daring to write about this drug.| Forbidden Stories
Khudayberdy Allashov died after exposing forced labor in Turkmenistan’s cotton fields. Turkmen cotton can still be found today in textile products worldwide.| Forbidden Stories
Central African journalist Ephrem Yalike offers evidence revealing, for the first time, the relentless influence exerted in his country by Russia.| Forbidden Stories
News Gaza Project: we reiterate our request for access to a satellite image Open Letter to Maxar’s CEO, Dan Smoot. By Forbidden Stories October 9, 2024 Dear Dan Smoot, Chief Executive Officer of Maxar Intelligence After several requests addressed to your teams and to you directly, and without any response for more than three months, […]| 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
Moroccan human rights defender Fouad Abdelmoumni was arrested after posting on Facebook about the Pegasus scandal, just hours after President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Morocco. Though he was released after 48 hours, he is still being prosecuted for “spreading false allegations.” He gave his first interview since his arrest to Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
To commemorate International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists and the seven year anniversary of Forbidden Stories, we are asking you to help us pursue the investigations of journalists who have been silenced.| Forbidden Stories
We spoke with more than half a dozen journalists from around the world, including members of Forbidden Stories’ network of journalist partners and journalists living in countries where they are regularly threatened, about the potential impacts of Trump’s election on their daily work and the public’s perception of the press.| Forbidden Stories
After Forbidden Stories revealed Israeli government interference in another legal case against the spyware manufacturer, Apple has decided to drop its lawsuit against Israeli company NSO group| Forbidden Stories
An Emmy Award for our documentary about the Pegasus spyware By Forbidden Stories September 30, 2024 (Credit : Television Academy / Emmy Awards) Shortlisted for the Emmys in the ‘Outstanding Investigative Documentary’ and ‘Outstanding Research’ categories for the documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, co-produced with Frontline PBS, Arte, BBC Storyville, Forbidden Films and Mediawan, […]| Forbidden Stories
Pegasus Project Français English A worldwide collaboration to counter a global crime An unprecedented leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance by the customers of the israeli company NSO Group shows how this technology has been systematically abused for years. The Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International had access to records of […]| Forbidden Stories
After surviving an Israeli military drone attack, the Khair Al-Din brothers had to give up their journalistic work on the food insecurity in Gaza. Forbidden Stories picked up where their coverage left off.| Forbidden Stories
Since October 7, more than 100 journalists have been killed. Forbidden Stories investigated their killings.| Forbidden Stories
Since October 7, Israel appears to have systematically targeted press organizations and cameras filming live from the Gaza Strip in order to prevent journalists from covering the ongoing war.| Forbidden Stories
Le 15 décembre 2023, le journaliste Samer Abu Daqqa a été tué par une frappe israélienne à Khan Younès. À l’aide de témoignages et d’une enquête en sources ouvertes, nous retraçons sa dernière journée.| 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
As part of the Gaza Project, Forbidden Stories and its partners pursued the work of journalists attacked while covering West Bank settlement expansion and the displacement of Bedouin communities.| Forbidden Stories
Donate Help us continue the work of journalists who have been silenced Forbidden Stories is a non-profit media organization. Our investigations are funded by the public, for the public. As long as journalism remains under attack, we will need your help. Type of donation One-timeMonthly You can log in at any time to change your […]| Forbidden Stories
Israel says it takes strict precautions to avoid civilian casualties in its use of unmanned aerial vehicles. But a pattern has emerged of journalists in Gaza being hit by Israeli drones.| Forbidden Stories
On May 4, 2024, two journalists from Al Araby TV came under Israeli military fire while covering a raid in the West Bank. They narrowly escaped, and their camera was destroyed.| Forbidden Stories
News Report: Russian exiled journalists, Belarusian opposition among Pegasus spyware targets An undetermined Pegasus customer, or customers, targeted at least seven exiled journalists, opposition figures, and civil society members in Europe with Pegasus spyware, according to a new report from Access Now and Citizen Lab released today. Key findings Russian and Belarusian journalists and opposition […]| Forbidden Stories
Forbidden Stories received a generous donation of $50,000 through the 2023 Lifetime Charity Fundraiser organized by the secure encrypted email service Proton Mail.| Forbidden Stories
News Filter Filter by tag Actualité Impact Récompense Réseau SafeBox Vidéo nomine Vidéo Discussion avec le Prix Nobel de la Paix Dmitry Muratov 22 April 2024 nomine Actualité Forbidden Stories à l’exposition World Press Photo 2024 19 April 2024 nomine Vidéo Journalisme collaboratif : quelques retours d’expérience du directeur de Forbidden Stories 19 March 2024 […]| Forbidden Stories
Documents reveal how Israel seized files, suppressed information related to WhatsApp’s lawsuit against Pegasus spyware vendor NSO| Forbidden Stories
A leak of 50,000 numbers surveilled by NSO Group clients reveals systematic abuse. Forbidden Stories and Amnesty accessed numbers selected since 2016 in over 50 countries.| Forbidden Stories
