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  1. 1Khadija IsmayilovaKhadija IsmayilovaBorn 27 May 1976Khadija Ismayilova's Reporting on Azerbaijan's Ruling Family Working with the cross-border OCCRP network, Ismayilova followed the money around Azerbaijan's ruling family, and the Panama Papers later confirmed parts of what she had reported about the president. The state's answer was a prosecution:…0
  2. 2Carmen AristeguiCarmen AristeguiBorn 18 Jan 1964La Casa Blanca by Carmen Aristegui's Team (Mexico) In November 2014 Aristegui's investigative unit revealed that a roughly $7 million mansion linked to Angélica Rivera, wife of President Enrique Peña Nieto, had been built by Grupo Higa, a government contractor. The story became shorthand for the…0
  3. 3CumhuriyetCumhuriyetCumhuriyet's Intelligence Trucks Story (Turkey) In 2015 the Istanbul daily Cumhuriyet published evidence of weapons being moved towards Syrian insurgents on trucks run by MIT, Turkey's intelligence service. It went to the heart of what the state was doing in a neighbouring war, which is exactly…0
  4. 4Daphne Caruana GaliziaDaphne Caruana GaliziaBorn 26 Aug 1964Daphne Caruana Galizia's Panama Revelations (Malta) Writing on her own blog, Running Commentary, Caruana Galizia reported in February 2016 that minister Konrad Mizzi and the prime minister's chief of staff, Keith Schembri, had set up offshore structures involving New Zealand trusts and Panama…0
  5. 5Novaya GazetaNovaya GazetaNovaya Gazeta's Chechnya Purge Investigation (Russia) On 1 April 2017 Elena Milashina's report in Novaya Gazeta revealed that Chechen police were rounding up men suspected of being gay, holding them in secret detention and torturing them; the paper reported more than a hundred detentions and at…0
  6. 6Armando.InfoArmando.InfoArmando.info's CLAP Food Investigation (Venezuela) Two reports in 2017 showed how Venezuela's subsidised CLAP food programme was supplied at inflated prices, and traced the contracts to businessman Alex Saab and an offshore company holding a $340 million import deal. In a country short of food,…0
  7. 7RapplerRapplerRappler's Impunity Series (Philippines) Rappler's Impunity Series documented Rodrigo Duterte's drug war killing by killing, with Patricia Evangelista and photographer Carlo Gabuco reporting from the crime scenes and neighbourhoods where it was fought. It treated each death as a case to be examined…0
  8. 8ReutersReutersReuters' Inn Din Massacre Investigation (Myanmar) Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo documented the killing of ten Rohingya men by soldiers and villagers in Inn Din, Rakhine State, in September 2017. It was hard, specific evidence of what the army was doing during the expulsion of the…0
  9. 9ConfidencialConfidencialConfidencial Under the Ortega Government (Nicaragua) Carlos Fernando Chamorro's Confidencial kept reporting on the Ortega government's crackdown after the 2018 protests, when few independent outlets were left standing. Police raided its offices on the night of 13 December 2018, the same night they…0
  10. 10Mada MasrMada MasrMada Masr's Report on the President's Son (Egypt) In November 2019 Mada Masr reported that Mahmoud al-Sisi, the president's eldest son, had been moved out of a powerful intelligence post to a diplomatic mission in Russia. Few outlets in Egypt would touch the inner workings of the security state at…0