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Sep 11, 2025
When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets. Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵
Syria’s Stolen Children
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Jun 2, 2023
When 94 people, including 35 children, drowned off the Italian coast in February, Italy said it would have launched a rescue mission had it known enough in time. @LHreports & partners uncover evidence showing Italy lied & @Frontex helped in a cover up
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Dec 11, 2023
EU border agency @Frontex have been sharing coordinates of refugee boats in the Central Med with a ‘pirate’ vessel run by a Libyan militia known for kidnap & torture. The cooperation with the group, which is linked to Wagner, is an apparent violation of international law
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Jun 29, 2023
Greece is trying to cover up its role in the Pylos shipwreck which caused 100s of deaths on 13 June Documents obtained by @LHreports & partners show the Greek coast guard went as far as tampering with official statements given by survivors
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Feb 28, 2022
1/ "They're not letting the black girl go." This video captures a disturbing scene at a railway station in Ukraine as a young woman is prevented from boarding an evacuation train. @LHReports investigates this case & others
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Mar 23, 2024
What is France doing in return for UK cash to ‘stop the boats’? Unseen footage obtained by @LHreports shows new aggressive campaign where French police carry out violent interceptions at sea – flooding & ramming into vessels & using pepper spray Thread 🧵
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Apr 29, 2022
Today, after more than 2 years of investigations by @LHreports, the head of the EU’s border agency Frontex resigned. Small teams working in Europe’s public interest can make a big difference. Explainer in short 🧵
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Jan 18, 2023
While tourists on ferries are sipping from their sundowners, people - including children - are chained & locked up below decks in dark places @LHreports & partners has investigated illegal returns of refugees by Italy to Greece
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Apr 6, 2023
Croatia has always denied any knowledge of violent & illegal operations by its own police forcing people seeking asylum back out of the EU Now we can reveal that top Croatian officials were part of a secret WhatsApp group where such activities were shared & encouraged
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Jun 28, 2022
Greek police are using refugees as ‘slaves’ to force 1000s of desperate asylum seekers back to Turkey. For the first time you can hear one of them talk on camera about being forcibly recruited into violent operations that Greece still denies
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Nov 29, 2022
On Jun 24 a group of people, mainly refugees from Sudan, tried to cross Africa's land border with Europe. What followed as they were caught between Spanish & Moroccan forces has been called a massacre. @LHreports & partners reconstructed a day of death & chaos
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May 21, 2024
Tens of thousands of Black refugees & migrants are being rounded up across North Africa & dumped in the desert & remote areas, sometimes left for dead These operations are secretly financed with European money, despite regional and EU denials 🧵
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Mar 6, 2023
Algorithms are being used in welfare systems across Europe to hunt for fraud. These machines make life-changing decisions about millions of people. They claim to be accurate and fair. For the first time we got access to fully test these claims
Suspicion Machines
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Jun 29, 2023
Few Europeans have heard of it but there's a lobby group in Brussels that holds sway over the future of food, farms & nature. We dug deep into Copa-Cogeca to find a Brussels bully that's bleeding support among farmers 🧵
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