🔴#MozambiqueExosed: New video online youtube.com/shorts/tKaDa... In partnership with @evidentmedia.org @observateurs.france24.com @papertrailmedia.de @zdfde.bsky.social @source-material.org

Iranian journalist Saeed Aganji (IranGate) faces coordinated attacks on his social media, including repeated attempts to restrict and suspend his accounts, which has been down several times.

🔴 In an age where Big Tech companies are flooding our information ecosystem and fake news spreads six times faster than facts, reliable journalism is what we need most.

🎯+400K views. The video in which Amalfi Rosales, a SafeBox Network member, speaks directly to the people threatening her, has now reached more than 400,000 views across our platforms, mainly in Colombia.

🔴👁️ In Mozambique, investigating corruption and environmental crime can come at a very high cost.

🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] MozambiqueExposed #2: Rapport inédit de l’ONU : des employés du projet gazier mené par TotalEnergies accusés d’exploitation sexuelle, l’armée mozambicaine de violences sexuelles.

🔴🎙️ « Forbidden Stories, l’assurance vie du journalisme d’investigation ». Dans une interview par Alexandra Klinnik pour Méta-Média (@francetelevisions.bsky.social), Laurent Richard, fondateur de Forbidden Stories, revient sur l’importance du journalisme collaboratif.

🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] MozambiqueExposed #2: Rapport inédit de l’ONU : des employés du projet gazier mené par TotalEnergies accusés d’exploitation sexuelle, l’armée mozambicaine de violences sexuelles.

👉 How can journalists uncover hidden mines, illegal airstrips, roads, or plantations anywhere on Earth in just minutes?

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] MozambiqueExposed #2: Unpublished UN Report Implicates Workers on TotalEnergies-led Project in Sexual Exploitation and Mozambique's Military in Sexual Violence.

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] MozambiqueExposed #2: Unpublished UN Report Implicates Workers on TotalEnergies-led Project in sexual exploitation and Mozambique's Military in Sexual violences.

🔴🇧🇩 The #SafeBoxNetwork has just been introduced to around fifteen Bangladeshi journalists specialising in investigations into corruption, environmental issues, pollution, and agriculture.

🔴🇳🇬 #Nigeria: Inside the violent crackdown on peaceful protesters. A new investigation by a SafeBox Network member outlet. 👉 The Informant 247 reveals how peaceful protesters demanding action against kidnappings in Kwara State were violently attacked outside the Government House in December 2025.

🎙️ Missed the insightful conversation between @laurentrichard.bsky.social and @yoerialbrecht.bsky.social on @debalie.bsky.social TV? 👉 You can tune in right now: debalie.nl/programma/wh...

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed. A Campaign of Disappearances: Inside the Killings, Abductions and Surveillance of Mozambique’s Government Critics. ⬇️ Key Findings ⬇️

🇪🇨#Ecuador. En el marco de su investigación “Encerrados para morir”, la unidad de investigación periodística y miembro de la #RedSafeBox Tierra De Nadie en colaboración con Connectas.

📸 Pictures from last week’s True Story Festival in Bern! Credits: True Story Foundation, Meinrad Schade & Luca Ehbets @truestoryfestival.bsky.social @laurentrichard.bsky.social

🎙️ « Au Mozambique, les attaques contre les journalistes se multiplient depuis six ans ». 👉 Mariana Abreu, journaliste à Forbidden Stories et coordinatrice de l’enquête #MozambiqueExposed était l’invitée de Nicolas Sur sur Invité Afrique.

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed. Arlindo Chissale. Ibraimo Mbaruco. João Chamusse. Albino Sibia. 👉 They are not isolated cases. In Mozambique, the regime imposes a blackout on journalists.

Le 4 janvier 2025, l'activiste et journaliste Arlindo Chissale publie deux vidéos dénonçant l'assassinat d'opposants au Mozambique. Ses dernières. 3 jours plus tard, il monte dans un bus, et disparaît. Les Observateurs de @france24.com ont enquêté. 1/15 #MozambiqueExposed

🔴🇲🇿 [Nouvelle enquête] #MozambiqueExposed. Plongée dans la campagne d’enlèvements et d’assassinats contre les journalistes et opposants mozambicains. ⬇️ Nos révélations ⬇️

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed. “I am informed of very sensitive things” said Arlindo Chissale, one of the few Mozambican journalists investigating electoral fraud and abuses committed by the security forces. Three days after publishing this video online, he disappeared.

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed: Inside the machinery silencing journalists in Mozambique. 👉 While Mozambique remains largely under the radar of international media, the country is facing a deepening crackdown on press freedom.

🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed: New revelations on June 9th. Stay tuned. 🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed : Novas revelações em 9 de junho. @observateurs.france24.com @papertrailmedia.de @zdfde.bsky.social @source-material.org @evidentmedia.org @zitamar.bsky.social @rfi.fr @jornalexpresso.bsky.social M28 Investigates

🇸🇻#ElSalvador. Los documentos sensibles y pruebas relacionadas a la investigación de Gabriela Caceres, miembro de la #RedSafeBox, están resguardadas con Forbidden Stories.

🇪🇨#Ecuador : En el marco del proceso judicial por el asesinato del periodista Fernando Villavicencio, Forbidden Stories ha tomado conocimiento de amenazas de muerte en contra del equipo de La Fuente, fundada por la familia de Villavicencio y miembro de la #RedSafeBox.

We’re heading to the True Story Festival in Bern! Where you’ll find us: ⬇️ 🧵1/4

🇸🇻#ElSalvador. Sensitive documents and evidence related to the investigation of Gabriela Caceres, a member of the #SafeBoxNetwork, have been secured with Forbidden Stories.

🔴 Trois nouveaux partenaires du #SafeBoxNetwork en RDC 🇨🇩 ⚠️ En République Démocratique du Congo, les journalistes qui enquêtent sur des sujets sensibles (corruption, crimes environnementaux…) font régulièrement face à des menaces, des intimidations et des pressions.

🤝“We are deeply honoured that Forbidden Stories has been shortlisted for the Free Media Pioneer Award. This recognition belongs to the hundreds of journalists who have worked with us across the world over the past nine years.” - @laurentrichard.bsky.social ⬇️

📰 🔴 Support our work and receive a magazine at home! Forbidden Stories has joined forces with the French biweekly magazine Society, known for its long-form journalism, for a special edition.

🔴 The #SafeBoxNetwork partners with a new organisation from Nepal 🇳🇵 We are proud to announce our partnership with the Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network, a non-profit media organization producing investigative multimedia stories on social justice, using innovative storytelling tools.

🌍🇨🇩 #SafeBoxNetwork : À Mutaka 2, dans la province du Lualaba en RDC, une nouvelle enquête de Alain Kitenge et Becky Kasongo pour le média Sauti Ya Lualaba révèle les conséquences humaines et sociales des activités minières menées par une filiale du groupe chinois Zhejiang Jiana Energy.

🔴 Support our work and receive a magazine at home! Forbidden Stories has joined forces with the French biweekly magazine Society, known for its long-form journalism, for a special edition.

🔴🇸🇻 Una nueva periodista salvadoreña se une a la #RedSafeBox. Gabriela Cáceres es periodista de investigación en El Faro. Desde hace casi una década, informa sobre el crimen organizado y la corrupción, especialmente dentro del sistema judicial de El Salvador.

🔴🇸🇻 A new Salvadoran member is joining the #SafeBoxNetwork. Gabriela Cáceres is an investigative journalist at El Faro. For nearly a decade, she has reported on organized crime and corruption, including within El Salvador’s judicial system.

🔴🎙️ “If we ensure the survival of the story, then we can protect the life of the journalists”. @laurentrichard.bsky.social was invited to speak last weekend at the Logan Symposium at UC Berkeley Journalism in California in front of many US investigative journalists and executives.

🎙️🇲🇽 “Independant journalism has the potential to make people’s lives better. If we depend only on a local protection mechanism it will not be enough sadly. What we need is more international collaboration, with organizations like Forbidden Stories”.

Saturday read ☕️ “She was meant to disappear. Instead, her story multiplied.” Viktoriia Roshchyna’s work was continued by @forbidden-stories.bsky.social reporters. In this piece, Laurent Richard tells us why cross-border collaboration is now essential for safety. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔴 D-1 ⏱️Ahead of the #WorldPressFreedomDay (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

🔴 D-2 ⏱️ Ahead of the #WorldPressFreedomDay (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

🔴 D-3 ⏱️ Ahead of the #WorldPressFreedomDay (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

🎙️”Working alone today means being vulnerable, especially in environments where threats are organised, transnational and often backed by state power.” @laurentrichard.bsky.social, founder of Forbidden Stories, today in the @theguardian.com 📰 👉 buff.ly/y994j01 #WorldPressFreedomDay2026

14 years ago Mexican journalist Regina Martinez was strangled to death in a bathroom of her home. For years she exposed the nexus between politics and organized crime. But prosecutors blamed a love affair gone wrong.

🔴 D-4 ⏱️ Ahead of the #WorldPressFreedomDay (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

🔴 D-5 ⏱️ Ahead of the #WorldPressFreedomDay (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

🇨🇩🇧🇯 Deux nouveaux membres du Bénin et de la République Démocratique du Congo rejoignent le #SafeBoxNetwork.

🔴 EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL SURVEY: Journalists Under Attack Know What Protects Them. We Should Listen. 🌍 Ahead of the #WorldPressFreedomDay (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented, global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

🎙️🇦🇫 #AfghanVoices : Le silence ou l’exil. Eloïse Layan, journaliste à Forbidden Stories, revient sur l’enquête “Silence sur les ondes : enquête sur le gouverneur de Kaboul” au micro de Nicolas Rocca sur @RFI.fr

🇦🇫🎙️ “These r*pes and videos are a way to silence us” 1/6 👉 A women’s rights activist and frequent guest on Afghan radio programs, M. was arrested in Kabul in 2025 on the pretext that her hijab was improperly worn. During her detention by the Taliban’s morality police, she was r*ped by prison guards.