
War profiteers
How an Estonian arms broker pocketed €2m at the expense of Ukraine
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MoreHow asylum seekers are held in secret prisons on commercial ships to facilitate illegal pushbacks from Italy to Greece
MoreMass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban and landmark court ruling
MoreHow refugees are being arbitrarily detained and tortured at secret facilities along EU borders before being illegally forced back across borders
MoreFirst visual evidence of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers trying to reach Bulgaria brings into sharp question the EU’s approach to border control
MoreWhat happened to the thousands of Afghans who assisted the UK’s efforts and were abandoned after the fall of Kabul last year?
MoreJet linked to Israeli spyware tycoon delivers surveillance tech from the EU to notorious Sudanese militia
MoreHow visual evidence, witness testimony and ground reporting can be combined to prevent a cover up by Spain and Morocco
MoreTracing the fate of a cohort of non-white students who fled Russia’s invasion to be confronted with Europe’s hostile environment
MoreSome of Europe’s largest pension funds are investing billions of euros in volatile commodity markets, risking the hard-earned income of millions of workers while fuelling a global hunger crisis
MoreLighthouse Reports and Bellingcat have spent the past year working on one of the largest data-driven investigations into the spread of QAnon in Europe
MoreAmidst the most severe cost of living crisis in 40 years, our investigation reveals how Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid paying millions in tax while profiting from public subsidies.
MoreConfidential data and sources uncover major surveillance outfit operating from within the European Union
MoreEurope’s growing trade in the key ingredient in fertiliser enriches the Assad regime and demonstrates how adept the Kremlin and its allies are at bypassing sanctions.
MoreThe Greek police are using foreigners as “slaves” to forcibly return asylum seekers to Turkey
MoreCrude software in the Netherlands scored 100,000s of people on benefits, in first reconstruction of this kind, we reveal prejudice and randomness
MoreTrove of internal documents offers rare insight into how governments justify seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
MoreTechnology has been pushed as a panacea for African democracies. As Kenya faces its third biometric election, a French multinational has made tens of millions from failed systems
MoreFrontex’s internal database suggests the EU border agency is involved in illegal pushbacks on a massive scale
MoreWhilst food prices were already on the rise prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the outbreak of war in Europe’s breadbasket prompted them to skyrocket, pushing them out of reach of poor consumers. But at what cost? And who has profited?
MoreDocumenting Russia’s exploitative foreign mercenary system sending Syrians to fight in Ukraine
MoreWhile Al-Sissi’s Egypt is known for repression and war crimes, its navy went on a buying spree for military goods, spending billions in Europe and bypassing arms export regulations.
MoreOpen source analysis reveals the scale of the destruction carried out by the Russian-trained Syrian military in the name of de-mining, undermining claims it is a humanitarian exercise.
MoreHow to respond to the Europe’s rediscovery of compassion for refugees without ignoring damaging double standards
MoreDischarging oily wastewater has been outlawed globally for decades. But despite a sophisticated satellite monitoring system the practice is still common today – with potentially devastating effects for the environment
MoreUncovering the reality behind Swiss arms exports: while sold as civilian goods or with a humanitarian purpose, their violent impact is felt by civilians from the Brazilian favelas to the marketplaces of Afghanistan.
MoreExamining what whistleblowers claim is a new tactic of throwing asylum seekers overboard off Turkish coast
MoreMapping the desperate refugees and fellow EU countries facing the fall-out from Copenhagen’s decision to declare Damascus safe for returns
MoreThe most in-depth investigation to date of the EU police agency uncovers years of unlawful retention of personal data
MoreUsing open source to restore some humanity to the death toll of nameless and faceless people in the Poland-Belarus standoff
MoreRotterdam has deployed a predictive algorithm to flag welfare recipients for investigation; we obtained the source code.
MoreThe pandemic saw anti-migrant politics clash with public health needs, using data journalism to illuminate the outcome
MoreInvestigating the industrial complex around cheap meat, how it exerts undue influence on EU policy and whose interests it really represents
MoreFear, racism and exploitation: Pork companies subsidised by Spain and the EU have been responsible for abusive labour practices inside Spanish slaughterhouses.
MoreThe eco-disaster in Europe’s largest salt lagoon gripped Spain, but we found one of its main culprits hiding in plain sight
MoreGetting the visual evidence that removes the layer of plausible deniability from illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers in the Balkans and Aegean
MoreDenmark’s largest IT company, Systematic, is arming UAE forces active in Yemen, in direct violation of a Danish export ban
MoreTracing a year in the life of asylum seekers who survived the blaze that destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp
MoreWhile the military coup and deadly crackdown in Myanmar has drawn European condemnation, EU funds and technology have secretly aided the junta in spying on its own population
MoreThe EU borders agency plays a direct role in the Libyan coast guard’s interception operations contrary to previous denials
MoreInvestigation reveals multiple controversies over the way the Danish authorities reached the conclusion that refugees could return to the Syrian capital
MoreThe controversial US tech company is putting down roots in the EU’s security, public health and aviation sectors as well as its data infrastructure, raising questions
MoreAllegations of toxic culture at the EU’s border agency reveal a leadership under investigation over fraud and mismanagement.
MoreArms maintenance contracts perpetuate French involvement in proxy war in Libya, conflict in Yemen
MoreIllegal pushbacks in the Aegean aren’t rogue actions of the Greek national coast guard but operations undertaken with the support or connivance of an emerging EU super agency
MoreDelving into the plastic waste labyrinth to unveil how traders illegally ship Europe’s growing stockpile of plastic waste. And how it ends up in landfills and rivers far from the EU
MoreThe UK claims to strictly control its arms exports, but an investigation traced British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine
MoreHow one of Europe’s most famous companies is helping Turkey sustain a military airbridge with war-torn Libya despite a UN arms embargo
MoreEurope-wide investigation reveals modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on Europe’s farms at height of pandemic
MoreThe most violent pushbacks at Europe’s external borders are done by men in balaclavas. Are they vigilantes or clandestine state forces?
MoreGreek coastguard employing more aggressive tactics in intercepting asylum seekers and towing them back on life rafts towards Turkey
MoreEncouraged by Erdogan, thousands took to the Pazarkule border gate. But they soon realised they were pawns in a power game
MoreThe death of a Pakistani man during a standoff at the Greek-Turkish border raised serious questions. We consider the evidence
MoreDocumenting a new wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea, a practice that came to be known as deep pushbacks
MoreRevealing the EU’s role in the wholesale violation of international law and the creation of a refoulement by proxy off Libya
MoreAn inside perspective on a high-risk attempt by Iranian activists to address an endemic issue with violence against women
MoreA journey into uncharted territory in Sudan, with the perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur, reveals the true nature of its self-styled saviors
MoreWhile Saudi Arabian bombs rain on Yemen, Spain’s national carrier Iberia and Airbus profit by helping Saudi fighter jets refuel
MoreEurope spends vast sums to return migrants and asylum seekers. We track the costs and consequences of this deportation machine
MoreThousands of civilian casualties have not stopped Swedish and Danish companies from selling arms to the UAE and Saudi Arabia
MoreWhy has Europe stopped counting its undocumented population and what does this tell us about the possible failures of hardline migration policies
MoreTracing Belgian arms: Air power for Saudi Arabia and ‘cop killer’ guns for drug cartels in Mexico
MoreFrance claims to have one of the world’s strictest arms exports regimes but its weapons go to warmongers and repressive rulers
MoreGerman-made military equipment is used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their destructive war in Yemen
MoreIn a new tactic, plain clothes agents drag protesters from the streets and take them to secret prisons where some are tortured
MoreHow do stockpiles of Italian weapons end up in repressive regimes? Our investigation traces them to Turkmenistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia
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