We’re honored to share that the #GazaProject investigation — led by Forbidden Stories in collaboration with over a dozen media partners — has received the 2025 #IJ4EU Impact Award, organised by the ECPMF and announced tonight at the UNCOVERED Conference, hosted by iMEdD_org. 1/5

🇦🇫 @zahranader.bsky.social — editor-in-chief, @zantimes.bsky.social 🇷🇸 Mira Milosevic — ED, @gfmd.info 🇫🇷 @laurentrichard.bsky.social — filmmaker, founder @forbidden-stories.bsky.social 🇧🇷 @bykarlamendes.bsky.social — investigative reporter, @mongabay.com

🎥 Acompaña a Forbidden Stories tras las cámaras en el documental “You can’t kill the story” – ¡Ya disponible en español! 🔴 Ya disponible en YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4gi... *En inglés: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf7L... Todos los artículos disponibles en: forbiddenstories.org/projects_pos...

🔒 Like over 200 journalists around the world, Tulani Ngwenya has joined the SafeBox network to protect his investigations. 🛡️1/3

🔒 Comme plus de 200 membres du réseau SafeBox, Géraud Kossi Afangnowou sécurise ses informations pour continuer à enquêter. 🛡️ 1/4

🔴 Violence and corruption in #Haiti: Nearly three years ago, journalist Gary Tesse was brutally murdered in southern Haiti. He had been denouncing land grabs and abuses of power by the city’s most powerful magistrate: prosecutor Ronald Richemond. 1/5

🔴 Plongée dans la violence et la corruption en #Haïti : Il y a bientôt trois ans, le journaliste Gary Tesse était assassiné sauvagement dans le sud d’Haïti. Il dénonçait les vols de terres et les abus de pouvoir du magistrat le plus puissant de la ville : le procureur Ronald Richemond. 1/5

Attending #GIJC25 in Kuala Lumpur? If your work takes you into sensitive environments, you know how crucial it is to protect your documents, and ensure your stories can’t be silenced.

1/ 🔴 In Gaza, journalists have endured bombings, targeted airstrikes, and a suffocating siege. Now, they face hunger. Caught between the need to find food and the duty to report, many are too weak, exhausted, and malnourished to work.

🔴 In Gaza, journalists have endured bombings, targeted airstrikes, and a suffocating siege. Now, they face hunger. ⬇️

🔴 NEW INVESTIGATION: A decade‑long ban for Guernsey adviser tied to the family of an Azerbaijani oligarch 🇦🇿 A collaboration with @thesentryorg.bsky.social forbiddenstories.org/daphne-proje... 1/🧵

📰 1/ La rédaction de L’Orient Le Jour rejoint le #SafeBoxNetwork Basée au #Liban, la rédaction de @LOrientLeJour mène des enquêtes sensibles à travers le Moyen-Orient. Leurs journalistes opèrent régulièrement sur des terrains à risque et font face à des menaces en raison de leur travail.

🔴 1/ Couvrir les enjeux miniers est particulièrement sensible dans le sud de la République démocratique du Congo. C’est pourquoi Becky Kasongo et Fiston Salumu rejoignent le #SafeBoxNetwork. 🛡️ Ces deux journalistes d’investigation intègrent notre réseau pour protéger leurs enquêtes à haut risque.

Die beiden Investigativnetzwerke @forbidden-stories.bsky.social und @occrp.org (OCCRP) haben das Projekt "Alianza Paraguay” koordiniert – eine monatelange Recherche, um die Wege geschmuggelter Waffen nachzuverfolgen, und die Arbeit von Lourenço Veras fortzusetzen.

🔴Protecting the work of Mohammed Hafeez amid threats 1/ Yemeni journalist Mohammed Hafeez, a member of the #SafeBoxNetwork, has faced escalating threats after exposing the forced eviction of displaced families by armed tribal groups—while displacement authorities failed to intervene.

Los periodistas que participamos en la #AlianzaParaguay esperamos que las continuas investigaciones sirvan tanto de disuasión como de homenaje, no solo a Coronel, sino a los muchos reporteros que han arriesgado y perdido la vida en busca de la verdad. [Junto a @forbidden-stories.bsky.social ]

🇵🇾 En Paraguay, 19 periodistas han sido asesinados —y sus historias silenciadas— en los últimos 30 años. Siete de ellos perdieron la vida en la ciudad fronteriza de Pedro Juan Caballero. Lanzamos la #AlianzaParaguay para continuar sus investigaciones. 🧵

In Paraguay, 19 journalists have been killed—and their stories buried—in the last 30 years. Seven of them were murdered in the border city Pedro Juan Caballero. We launched and coordinated #AlianzaParaguay with @occrp.org to continue their investigations. 1/8

🔴 Nuestra nueva investigación, disponible mañana. La #Alianza Paraguay fue coordinada por Forbidden Stories y @occrp.org, en colaboración con Cuestión Pública, Revista Piauí, La Nación de Argentina, La Diaria, IrpiMedia, y DDoS. El grupo ABC Color colabora como socio en la republicación.

🔴 Stay tuned. We're publishing tomorrow, at 2PM CET. #AlianzaParaguay was coordinated by Forbidden Stories and @occrp.org, in collaboration with Cuestión Pública, Revista Piauí, La Nación from Argentina, La Diaria, and IrpiMedia, with DDOS. ABC Color group collaborated as a republication partner.

🔴 #Haiti: “I’m still traumatized.” On Dec. 24, 2024, journalist Whisly Desir was covering the reopening of Haiti’s largest public hospital in Port-au-Prince. Just minutes before the ceremony began, the “5 Segond” gang launched a deadly assault. // with @ayibopost.bsky.social

🎥 In 2019, Haitian journalist Néhémie Joseph was murdered while investigating former senator Rony Célestin and his alleged smuggling operations. We returned to Mirebalais — Néhémie’s hometown — to pick up where he left off. In partnership with @ayibopost.bsky.social

🆕 NEW INVESTIGATION — HAITI 🇭🇹 Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse. @Ayibopost 1/5

🔴 Luis Esquivel Golcher, periodista independiente panameño, se centra en investigaciones de alto riesgo vinculadas a corrupción estatal, crimen organizado y vigilancia ilegal. Estos temas lo exponen a serias amenazas, persecuciones o intentos de pirateo. 1/2

📢 Our 2024 Annual Report is out — a look at how we kept silenced investigations alive, across borders and beyond threats. Over the past year, we joined forces with 130 journalists from 33 media partners on 5 international investigations to pursue the stories others tried to bury. 1/2

🔴 “They have no limits.” — Ismail, formerly detained by Wagner in Mali | #ViktoriiaProject 1/3

🔴 Torture, Waterboarding, and Electric Cables: Inside Wagner’s Hidden Detention Sites in Mali | #ViktoriiaProject Travelling to #Mali is nearly impossible for journalists. So our reporter, Guillaume Vénétitay, went to neighbouring Mauritania, to the town of... 🧵 1/3

⚠️ TW: An extract from this video — recorded by a Wagner mercenary — showcases degrading treatment and threats. 🔴 Massacres, rapes, burnt villages and systematic torture used to extract information | #ViktoriiaProject 1/3

Une nouvelle enquête du consortium Forbidden Stories révèle la présence de prisons secrètes de Wagner au Mali

Investigación de Forbidden Stories: las prisiones secretas de Wagner en Mali

Une nouvelle enquête du consortium Forbidden Stories révèle la présence de prisons secrètes de Wagner au Mali

🚨Torture, séquestration et exaction... Forbidden Stories, Le monde et des médias partenaires révèlent comment Wagner a tué des centaines de civils maliens pendant trois ans. ▶️Six bases militaires auraient été utilisées à cet effet, de manière secrète.

Secret prisons. Torture. Total impunity. As part of the #ViktoriiaProject, we investigated how Russian #Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in #Mali. 📽️ Watch our video on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkvI...

📺Torture and forced disappearances: Inside #Wagner’s secret prisons in #Mali 👉After personally traveled to refugee camps to get first-hand testimonies, @forbidden-stories.bsky.social's @gvenetitay.bsky.social speaks with @en.france24.com on the new investigation.

🇲🇱 Mali: selon une enquête de Forbidden Stories, les paramilitaires russes de Wagner, présents dans le pays depuis trois ans et demi, ont "kidnappé et détenu des centaines de civils sur d'anciennes bases de l'ONU et dans des camps militaires partagés avec l'armée malienne". ➡️ u.afp.com/SN54

Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali

🔴 NEW INVESTIGATION — Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali 🧵 (1/5) Since 2021, Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group have tortured civilians in secret detention sites across Mali — former UN bases and military camps shared with the Malian army (FAMa).

Justice has been served for Cambodian journalist Chhoeung Chheng, who was killed in December 2024 while investigating illegal deforestation near the Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary—highlighting the dangers faced by reporters covering environmental crimes.

Forbidden Stories has long documented attacks on the media and exposed how Israeli forces have sought to evade accountability, through cross-border investigations like the #GazaProject. Today, alongside 130+ global press freedom leaders, we join the urgent call for immediate access to Gaza.

🔴 Arrested. Detained. Silenced. Ali Samoudi — West Bank veteran Palestinian journalist and colleague of Shireen Abu Akleh — has been held in administrative detention by the Israeli army since April 29th. No charges. No trial. No clear “evidence.”

Face aux menaces, de plus en plus de journalistes choisissent de protéger leurs enquêtes avec Forbidden Stories. Cette semaine, nous accueillons deux nouveaux membres dans notre réseau SafeBox :

We’re proud to share that the #BakuConnection project—led by Forbidden Stories in collaboration with over a dozen media partners—has received the Special Award from the European Press Prize. This award honors exceptional journalism that stands for courage, impact, and international solidarity.

“Rejoindre le SafeBox, c’est une chance. Ça nous permet de sécuriser nos informations, de sécuriser les pièces que nous avons (...) et puis de débarrasser nos outils de ces documents là, pour être carrément en sécurité.” - Aristide Fassinou Hounkpèvi 👉 youtube.com/shorts/100UZ...

In Serbia, investigating corruption might get your phone tapped with spyware. That’s what happened to one of our colleagues at FAR. Under pressure, FAR paused the investigation. We joined them to finish it. 🔗 Read our full story: forbiddenstories.org/spying-journ...

FRANCE24: A journalist's disappearance in Russian-occupied Ukraine youtu.be/3TPToAT0sMY?... @france24.com @forbidden-stories.bsky.social @laurentrichard.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism

An estimated 16,000 Ukrainian civilians are held by Russia or in occupied territories. Some tortured into confessions. Others simply disappeared. We traced 29 sites where civilians were mistreated — based on over 50 testimonies. 🛑 Read the full investigation: forbiddenstories.org/russia-disap...

Comment raconter ce qui se passe à Gaza quand l'armée israélienne interdit d'y entrer ? Comment avons nous enquêté dans le cadre du #GazaProject coordonné par @forbidden-stories.bsky.social Je vous en parlais sur @franceculture.fr ⬇️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Torture. Electric shocks. Psychological abuse: inside Russia’s notorious Taganrog prison. Journalist Viktoriia Roschyna died after 9 months inside. Following up on her work, the Forbidden Stories consortium interviewed 10 former detainees and built a 3D model.

Since February 2022, more that 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have vanished into a network of informal Russian detention centers. Ukrainian reporter Viktoriia Roshchyna was investigating this subject when she was captured and became one of them. Read here: forbiddenstories.org/russia-disap...

Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in 2022 while reporting on the torture of Ukrainian civilians held in informal detention centers by Russian force. In October 2024, she was declared dead in Russian captivity. Read our full investigation 👉 forbiddenstories.org/russia-detai...