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Alianza Paraguay

Guns, Smugglers, and a Journalist’s Murder on the Paraguay-Brazil Border

7 media outlets are tracing the supply chain feeding organized crime groups in the region.

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Alianza Paraguay

'Organized crime has infiltrated the Prosecutor's office': The killing of a journalist and the rot in Paraguay's justice system

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Alianza Paraguay

How a prominent politician and businessman’s fall exposed corruption in Paraguay

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...

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Articles

Smuggling, ill-gotten gains and suspected ties to gangs: In Haiti, the shady dealings of former senator Rony Célestin

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.

News

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Gaza Project

A Prominent Palestinian Journalist Still Held in Administrative Detention Without Clear Evidence

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News

Forbidden Stories takes over the Paris metro

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News

Rwanda Classified: The Kagame regime has maintained its disinformation habit

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News

Event: Step behind the scenes of these forbidden stories

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News

WhatsApp trumps NSO in court: A historical ruling amid political change

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News

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News

“The Azerbaijani government needed the COP to cover up the question of media freedom”

Investigations

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Alianza Paraguay

Alianza Paraguay: Why Forbidden Stories launched a global investigation into organized crime

Nineteen journalists have been killed in Paraguay – and two in Brazilian border towns – in roughly 30...

Hopital Général Port-au-Prince attaque journalistes haitï

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Haïti

The Port-au-Prince hospital massacre: A symbol of the relentless advance of armed gangs in Haiti

On Dec. 24, 2024, the 5 Segond gang attacked Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital, killing two journalists....

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Haïti

In Haiti, the murder of a journalist who denounced corruption and a prosecutor above the law

Gary Tesse was murdered in 2022 after criticizing Les Cayes prosecutor Ronald Richemond, whom he accused...

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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...

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Under surveillance

Suspicious tenders and spying on journalists: a small Serbian town in the grip of corruption

FAR and Forbidden Stories investigated the practices of the mayor of Dimitrovgrad.

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Viktoriia Project

Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was pronounced dead in Russian captivity in October 2024, after...

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Viktoriia Project

How Russia Secretly Disappears Thousands of Ukrainian Civilians

Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories...

Viktoriia Roshchyna ukrainian journalist

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Viktoriia Project

Viktoriia Roshchyna, lost in “the gray zone”

Her investigation into the thousands of Ukrainian civilians illegally detained by Russia cost her her...

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SafeBox Network

Through the SafeBox Network, some of the world’s most threatened journalists are securing their sensitive information with Forbidden Stories.

If they are abducted, imprisoned or assassinated, Forbidden Stories and its partners will be able to continue their investigations and publish them worldwide.

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Benjamin Kasembe

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Amalfi Rosales

Colombia

L'Alternative

Togo

Karla Lorena Lamas Contreras

Mexico

Mardochée Boli

Mali

Vicente Godoy Cardozo

Paraguay

Lady Ann Salem

The Philippines

Trésor Mpanda

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hussam Eldin Abd ALwahad

Sudan

Alma Lilia Ríos Colín

Mexico

Neil Ambion

The Philippines

DARAJ

Lebanon

Bolot Temirov

Kyrgyzstan

Chiaka Doumbia

Mali

Momar Dieng

Senegal

Marc-Evens Lebrun

Haiti

Camilo Álzate

Colombia

Paola Ugaz

Peru

Febriana Firdaus

Indonesia

YoCiudadano

Mexico

Esquina 32

Mexico

Mustapha Darboe

The Gambia

Adolfo Flórez Garzón

Colombie

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Key figures

Since its creation, 90 media outlets have collaborated with Forbidden Stories.

150

A hundred and fifty journalists from 49 countries have worked on our investigations since 2017.

1,320

Our collaborative investigations have multiplied the reach of our forbidden stories by 1,320. That’s what we call the Streisand effect.

All our investigations

Corruption Drug cartels

Alianza Paraguay

Haiti: A State in Ruins, Predators in Power

Corruption Cyber surveillance Spyware

Under surveillance: local corruption and a journalist spied on in Serbia

Human rights War

Viktoriia Project

Human rights Starvation War

Gaza Project

Trafic

Sanction Breakers

Corruption Environment Human rights

Deforestation in Cambodia: Revelations on a deadly code of silence

Drug cartels War

Captagon Connection

Human rights

In Turkmenistan, the death of a journalist lifts the veil on forced labor in cotton fields

Disinformation Influence

The Propaganda Machine

Our mission is unique

Forbidden Stories is an international network of journalists whose mission is to pursue the investigations of other reporters who have been silenced.

Maria Ressa

2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate & CEO of Rappler

“All they want in killing a journalist, or in attacking a journalist, is to stop the story”

Alfredo Guachiré

Paraguayan journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

“For my safety (...) I turn to the organization Forbidden Stories to protect my investigations”

Khadija Ismayilova

Azerbaijani investigative journalist

“What you are suggesting is creating a newsroom for journalists who have no press freedom. You will get fantastic stories“

Omer Benjakob

Journalist at Haaretz, who collaborated with Forbidden Stories on the Pegasus Project and Story Killers investigations

"Collaborations are important because they allow us to pull our intellectual resources, our tools and our skills to do investigations that were impossible to achieve five years ago"

Fabrice Arfi

Head of Investigations at Mediapart

“The finest project of investigative journalism, in solidarity against censorship”

Jonathan Cuevas

Mexican journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

“The enemies of the press will think twice before committing such crimes”

Bastian Obermayer

2017 Pulitzer Prize winner

“Even if Forbidden Stories rescues just a handful of investigations that fall into a sort of limbo each time a journalist is jailed or killed, it will already be a great victory for citizens”

Ayodele Samuel

Nigerian journalist and member of the SafeBox Network

“Since I joined the SafeBox Network, I have been confident that should anything happen to me as a journalist on the field, my jobs are protected and somebody can take it up from there”

Columbia Journalism Review

“Forbidden Stories establishes itself as a new player in a global reporting-network scene that has generally been a bright light in a dark period for journalism around the world”

Hala Nasreddine

Head of Investigations at Daraj, Lebanese media outlet and member of the SafeBox Network

“Announcing that our information is secure has a deterrent effect on attempts of repression, silencing or threat”