Happy to see two Lighthouse Reports investigations shortlisted for One World Media awards

First our Left Behind series, in which we exposed the broken promises of European govts to help Afghan allies - & the resulting harm

Kudos to Fahim Abed & many others. Stories here:
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Chuffed to hear our Lighthouse Reports The Independent investigation into how UK-funded Afghan special forces units have been left to face torture & murder has been shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award amnesty-media-awards.org.uk/amnesty-media-…

Holly Bancroft Fahim Abed Monica C. Camacho
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Lighthouse Reports The Independent Holly Bancroft Fahim Abed Monica C. Camacho Our findings ultimately led to the UK govt announcing that all members of the units (the 'Triples') who've been denied relocation to the UK will have their applications reviewed – so we're pleased to have exposed the situation and hope it'll lead to many being brought to safety

French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel lemonde.fr/en/france/arti…

Glad to see ITV News pick up our Lighthouse Reports Channel investigation on the 6 & 10 o’clock news this eve (with a short snippet of me speaking to them about it!)

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Full thread & links to pieces in The Observer Le Monde DER SPIEGEL here x.com/lhreports/stat…

‘Stop the Boats’ became Sink the Boats. Unique footage obtained by Lighthouse Reports & partners shows how France copies dangerous tactics used by Greece & Libya to stop refugee boats in the Channel

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«افغان‌ها متحدان خوبی نبودند… پس از سقوط کی‌ها به سرک‌ها آمدند و اعتراض کردند؟ زن ها. کی‌ها در مقابل طالبان ایستاد؟ زن ها. مردهای افغانستان ترسیدند و بزدلی نشان دادند. زن‌ها تمام تلاش شان را کردند. آن‌ها به کوچه‌ها آمدند و تظاهرات کردند. آن‌ها سعی کردند از…

Une pensée pour Fahim Abed, Bashar Deeb / بشار ديب et Jack Sapoch qui ont fait un travail formidable au cours de cette enquête

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Internal sources have told us the police boat used to carry out the manoeuvre was obtained with UK money

Britain has pledged France £500m for 2023-26 to 'increase the interception rate' for attempted departures & 'drastically reduce' the number of small boat crossings

One video shows a French police boat in Dunkirk harbour circling a dinghy with around 25 people aboard, creating a wake which floods it

Panicked passengers attempt to bail the water out using their shoes

Experts say this could have caused mass deaths in water 14+ metres deep

The footage, plus leaked documents & testimonies - obtained with partners Le Monde The Observer DER SPIEGEL - reveal French police have:
- Rammed into a dinghy at high speed
- Circled a dinghy, causing waves to flood it
- Punctured dinghies at sea, forcing people to swim ashore

What is France doing in return for UK cash to ‘stop the boats’?

Unseen footage obtained by Lighthouse Reports shows new aggressive campaign where French police carry out violent interceptions at sea – flooding & ramming into vessels & using pepper spray

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Job alert 📢 We are hiring three fellows to join our #OSINT , #data & reporting teams! If you’re passionate about collaboration & experimenting with investigative tools, apply for our new #fellowship program by April 8 lighthousereports.com/lighthouse-rep…

From a wooden bench at the edge of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, visitors can see the Alabama River where enslaved Africans were transported and sold into a life of forced labor. ⁦Deborah Berry⁩ usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

‘Jamming’: How Electronic Warfare Is Reshaping Ukraine’s Battlefields nytimes.com/2024/03/12/wor… Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yurii Shyvala

زولفقار د پښتونخوا اوسیدونکی دی .

The UK has turned away hundreds of Afghan commandos paid and trained by the British military. Some had complained about or say they witnessed war crimes by the same UK forces who were given veto power over their applications… lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

UK Special Forces blocked Afghan troops they had fought alongside from relocating to the UK after the Taliban seized power, BBC Panorama can reveal. bbc.com/news/uk-683329…

Read more on our findings here twitter.com/LHreports/stat…

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Great to work with Fahim Abed and the BBC's Hannah O'Grady Rory Tinman Joel Gunter Farhad Mohammadi

Letting UK Special Forces decide over applications to safety from their Afghan colleagues, while they might have witnessed how these UK forces potentially committed war crimes… What could possibly go wrong? New investigation Lighthouse Reports, important work by May Bulman Fahim Abed