Jordan Higgins

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

🏆 The moment has finally arrived! The Winners of the 2025 European Press Prize are out now!

A huge congratulations to this year’s Winners and Runners-Up!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

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I’m almost ashamed to be here. Being Irish in Germany has always been an odd experience.

I decided to write a blog post about being Irish in Germany right now.

It felt necessary as more and more Irish artists' German shows are cancelled because of their solidarity with Palestine.
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3 years since the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh. No one has been charged or convicted.

According to a new documentary, Who Killed Shireen?, the US did not push for accountability despite knowing an Israeli soldier shot Abu Akleh.

End impunity for the killings of journalists.

Torture, Death of a Ukrainian Journalist in Russian Custody Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist, disappeared in the Russia-occupied part of the Zaporizka region of Ukraine in August 2023. A year later, she called her family fr...

Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist, disappeared in a Russia-occupied area of Ukraine in August 2023 and died in Russian captivity.

Russia’s abhorrent treatment of Roshchyna and her subsequent death require urgent investigation.

🇲🇹 #Malta: A vessel delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, attempting to bypass the blockade imposed by Israel, has been struck by drones yesterday in international waters near Malta.

"The humanitarian response in Gaza is on the verge of total collapse".

While everyone wrings their hands over Kneecap and Israel blows up an aid ship just off Malta.

Lost in the Gray Zone: How Russia Secretly Disappears Thousands of Ukrainian Civilians Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories have vanished into thin air. These “ghost prisoners” are whisked away by the occupying fo...

Since February 2022, more that 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have vanished into a network of informal Russian detention centers.

Ukrainian reporter Viktoriia Roshchyna was investigating this subject when she was captured and became one of them.
Read here: forbiddenstories.org/russia-disap...

‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months

The Viktoriia project launches today- our first story. Our deep dive into Russian detention centres, with @shaunwalker7.bsky.social and @forbidden-stories.bsky.social consortium to follow tomorrow.

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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

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🎉 Our 2025 Shortlist is out now!

25 projects have been nominated across our 5 categories:

🔹 Distinguished Reporting Award
🔹 Innovation Award
🔹 Investigative Reporting Award
🔹 Public Discourse Award
🔹 Migration Journalism Award

Find the full list here: www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

Germany is a disgrace.

Deporting EU citizens for protesting against genocide is just unbelievable authoritarianism

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