Forbidden Stories

12/06/2026

📸 Pictures from last week’s True Story Festival in Bern!
Credits: True Story Foundation, Meinrad Schade & Luca Ehbets

12/06/2026

🇪🇨 . En el marco de su investigación “Encerrados para morir”, la unidad de investigación periodística y miembro de la De Nadie EC en colaboración con , revelan cómo la militarización de las cárceles ecuatorianas en 2024 ha llevado al grave deterioro de las condiciones de vida de los detenidos y de sus familiares, a los que se les niega hasta el derecho de sepultura.

Desnutrición, brotes de tuberculosis, negaciones de tratamiento médico, estas son solo algunas de las graves vulneraciones de derechos humanos, desveladas en esta investigación, que convierten las cárceles ecuatorianas en territorios de muerte.

Como miembro de la Red SafeBox, Tierra De Nadie, ha protegido todas sus evidencias e informaciones sensibles relacionadas con esta investigación con Forbidden Stories. Si acaso le pasara algo al equipo de Tierra de nadie, Forbidden Stories y su red mundial de medios asociados llevarán a cabo su trabajo.

Descubre la investigación : https://tierradenadie.ec/encerrados-para-morir/

12/06/2026

Muito poucas informações chegam a público sobre Cabo Delgado, província confrontada há quase 10 anos com a violência do grupo armado al Shabab e com os abusos dos soldados nesta área do norte de Moçambique.…

12/06/2026

🎙️ « Au Mozambique, les attaques contre les journalistes se multiplient depuis six ans ».

👉 Mariana Abreu, journaliste à Forbidden Stories et coordinatrice de l’enquête était l’invitée de Nicolas Sur sur 'Invité Afrique'.

🔴 Violences contre la presse, répression politique, insurrection djihadiste… Au micro de , Mariana Abreu évoque la situation extrêmement préoccupante pour les journalistes au Mozambique, un pays plongé dans un blackout médiatique dans un contexte de multiplication des crises sur le plan politique, social et environnemental.

Écoutez l’interview complète : https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/invit%C3%A9-afrique-midi/20260609-au-mozambique-les-attaques-contre-les-journalistes-se-multiplient-depuis-six-ans



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Violences contre la presse, répression politique, insurrection djihadiste… Une enquête du collectif de presse Forbidden Stories passe au crible les maux du Mozambique. Fruit de cinq mois de travail d'une…

11/06/2026

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] .

Arlindo Chissale. Ibraimo Mbaruco. João Chamusse. Albino Sibia.

👉 They are not isolated cases. In Mozambique, the regime imposes a blackout on journalists.

Together with our partners, we investigated the killings, disappearances, surveillance and intimidation campaigns targeting journalists, opposition members and government critics in Mozambique.

Our reporting reveals how repression has intensified in the wake of the disputed 2024 elections, while authorities have largely failed to investigate those responsible.

📰 Read our full investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/mozambique-exposed/



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10/06/2026

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] . A Campaign of Disappearances: Inside the Killings, Abductions and Surveillance of Mozambique’s Government Critics.

Arlindo Chissale, Ibraimo Mbaruco, João Chamusse, Albino Sibia, Selma Inocência…The list of unsolved cases involving journalists is staggering. As the cases pile up, the authorities do little to nothing.

Together with our partners, we investigated the attacks, disappearances and intimidation campaigns that have kept Mozambique out of the headlines.

📰 Read our full investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/a-campaign-of-disappearances-inside-the-killings-abductions-and-surveillance-of-mozambiques-government-critics/



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09/06/2026

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] .

“I am informed of very sensitive things” said Arlindo Chissale, one of the few Mozambican journalists investigating electoral fraud and abuses committed by the security forces.

Three days after publishing this video online, he disappeared.

In a country ruled by one party for half a century, dissent has no place. Forbidden Stories and its partners investigated the broader pattern of enforced disappearances and political killings in Mozambique.

📰 Read our full investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/mozambique-exposed/



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09/06/2026

🔗Le premier volet de notre enquête est accessible ici: https://forbiddenstories.org/fr/projects_posts/mozambique-exposed-2/

🔴Nouvelles révélations la semaine prochaine.

09/06/2026

🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] : Inside the machinery silencing journalists in Mozambique.

👉 While Mozambique remains largely under the radar of international media, the country is facing a deepening crackdown on press freedom. Since the disputed October 2024 elections, journalists, bloggers and opposition figures have been targeted by intimidation, disappearances, killings and alleged poisonings, and the authorities do little to nothing to investigate them.

Together with our partners, we examined a series of cases that illustrate the climate of impunity: from the disappearance of radio journalist Ibraimo Mbaruco in 2020, to the killing of blogger Albino Sibia while livestreaming a protest in 2024, the abduction of reporter Arlindo Chissale in 2025.

📍 In Cabo Delgado, a province devastated by conflict between Islamic State-linked insurgents and Mozambican forces, authorities are accused of imposing a media blackout.

Journalists attempting to report on the war and the impacts of major gas projects face threats, harassment, arrests and expulsion.

📰 Read our full investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/mozambique-exposed/



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07/06/2026

🇲🇿 : New revelations on June 9th. Stay tuned.
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🇲🇿 : Novas revelações a 9 de junho. Fique atento.

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