A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts.
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A suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a Bulgarian journalist has been apprehended. But questions remain about whether Viktoria Marinova’s coverage of a procurement scandal was the real reason for her killing.
Viktoria Marinova (Photo: Facebook)
Seven months ago, three employees of the Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio were abducted in the Mataje River region on the border between Ecuador and Colombia. After almost three weeks in captivity, reporter Javier Ortega, photographer Paul Rivas, and their driver, Efrain Segarra, were executed by the Oliver Sinisterra Front, a group of former FARC guerillas and drug traffickers who operate in this lawless jungle.
Stanko Subotic, a businessman twice indicted for cigarette smuggling and known for his links to an alleged drug lord, is set to make millions from the expansion of Belgrade's airport.
Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport. (Photo: KRIK)
Read more: Serbian Businessman With Organized Crime Ties to Profit Big in Airport Deal
How a small firm of wealth advisers built up a $3 billion “golden passports” industry and gained influence in the Caribbean.
Christian Kalin, founder of Henley & Partners, talks about press coverage of the citizenship by investment industry in an April 2018 interview. (Credit: YouTube)
Read more: The Passport King who Markets Citizenship for Cash
“Citizenship for sale” has come under increasing scrutiny from governments and security agencies.
EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova speaking in an interview with AFP this year. (Credit: YouTube)
Read more: “Golden Passports” Threaten European Security, Warns EU Commissioner
Malta’s smugglers are creative in plying their trade, and international authorities are working hard to keep up. The ports of Valletta provide them with an ideal base – one shared with the accused murderers of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Torture is widespread in police cells and prisons across Russia. A new analysis of court rulings shows what the perpetrators pay — if they pay at all.
Credit: Edin Pasovic / OCCRP
When investigating why Russian border guards refused to let a Tajik citizen leave the country, a journalist discovered that the FSB has been systematically using remote police stations across southern Russia as secret prisons. Victims are detained for weeks on petty charges, such as swearing in public.
Credit: Maria Tolstova
Said, a young Somalian man, left his home in 2015 to escape recruitment by jihadist group al-Shabab. After journeying for nearly a year — during which he was tortured in a Libyan slave camp, saw many of his fellow travellers die, and crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber boat — he finally made it to Belgium. This is his story.
Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015; Irish Defence Forces LE Eithne Operations 28 June 2015.
Heaven and the Underworld Meet at a Catholic festival in the mountains of Calabria.
Festival of the Madonna di Polsi by Antonio Lemma
Read more: Bitter Beauty: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of the ‘Ndrangheta
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