Shayma Bakht

Inside Poland’s Death Zone, where migrants are pawns for Belarus

As Warsaw battles to stem the flow of people pushed to the border by Russia and its ally, hundreds are stranded in no man’s land — and many never escape ⬇️

Inside Poland’s Death Zone, where migrants are pawns for Belarus As Warsaw battles to stem the flow of people pushed to the border by Russia and its ally, hundreds are stranded in no man’s land — and many never escape

This has been criticised as a tactic by Russia and its ally to destabalise the EU

Read the dispatch and watch our documentary on it here:
www.thetimes.com/article/6fbd...

🚨Dispatch to Poland-Belarus border where migrants are pushed to a no mans land called the “death zone” -over 130 bodies have been found

We follow a group of migrants fleeing this zone & uncover the channels of Belarusian smugglers selling flight packages to the EU, targeting those fleeing warzones

A toxic household: the father and stepmother who killed Sara Sharif After her mother, Olga Sharif, was accused of neglect and violence, Sara was left with a manipulative abuser and his wife

I travelled to Poland to speak to Sara Sharif’s relatives and was told about a decade of horror successfully hidden by her father Urfan

With insight from family & friends from the UK, Europe + Pakistan, this is everything The Times can now reveal about the Sharifs:
www.thetimes.com/article/d16d...

A tentative entry into the world of starter packs with a list of -

Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.

Small list for now. Follow them below and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.

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Thanks Jack!

How I accidentally tracked down the Kurdish smuggler in Calais responsible for the death of a toddler / visited a Yemen island/ or about my upcoming investigations into the death of Sara Sharif / following migrants escaping the so-called “death zone” on the Polish-Belarusian border … let’s connect

Hello! Let me reintroduce myself: I am a reporter at @thetimes.com if you want to read how I went undercover in Saudi Arabia to reveal nation-wide human trafficking/ exposed predatory men who targeted refugees on the Homes4Ukraine scheme/ reported from ISIS prisons & the South China Sea on a boat/

Ah Emma thank you for sharing!

Shayma's interview with a people smuggler is a remarkable piece of journalism from an increasingly hostile Calais environment. Give it a read here: www.thetimes.com/article/95af...

Welcome!

Shayma Bakht - Another one to watch, Shayma has won numerous awards as a talented young journalist and has worked on stories across Britain, the Middle East and beyond. Recently did a spectacular piece on people traffickers in Calais.

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