Forbidden Stories

13/05/2026

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11/05/2026

🔴🇸🇻 Una nueva periodista salvadoreña se une a la .

Gabriela Cáceres es periodista de investigación en El Faro. Desde hace casi una década, informa sobre el crimen organizado y la corrupción, especialmente dentro del sistema judicial de El Salvador.

Su trabajo es esencial, pero la ha expuesto a amenazas, persecución y vigilancia. En 2021, fue una de las 22 periodistas de El Faro víctimas del software espía Pegasus.

🌍 Hoy se une a más de 250 periodistas en riesgo que protegen sus investigaciones sensibles a través de la de Forbidden Stories.

📰 Junto con nuestros socios internacionales , nos aseguramos de que sus investigaciones continúen pase lo que pase.

Más información en nuestro sitio web: https://forbiddenstories.org/es/safebox-network/

08/05/2026

🔴🇸🇻 A new Salvadoran member is joining the .

Gabriela Cáceres is an investigative journalist at El Faro. For nearly a decade, she has reported on organized crime and corruption, including within El Salvador’s judicial system.

Her work is essential, but it has exposed her to threats, persecution, and surveillance. In 2021, she was one of the 22 El Faro journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware.

🌍 Today, she joins more than 250 at-risk journalists who secure their sensitive ongoing investigations through Forbidden Stories’ .

📰 Together with our international media partners, we ensure her investigations will continue anyway.

More info on our website: https://forbiddenstories.org/safebox/

07/05/2026

🎙️🔴 ON AIR with BBC World Service.

Did you miss it?

For the , BBC World Service featured the work of Forbidden Stories and its in People Fixing the World, highlighting solutions to global challenges.

The is a secure platform that allows threatened journalists to store their ongoing investigations, stay connected to a trusted international network, and ensure their work will be pursued and published if anything happens to them.

🇪🇨 In this episode, Mira Anubi speaks with Tamia Villavicencio, a member in Ecuador. She continues the work of her father, Fernando Villavicencio, assassinated in 2023 after exposing corruption.

Now living under permanent police protection and facing constant threats, she keeps investigating, knowing her work is secured.

👉 In 2025, 96 journalists were killed worldwide.

🎧 Listen to the full episode on : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nhsc9r

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05/05/2026

🔴🎙️ “If we ensure the survival of the story, then we can protect the life of the journalists”.

Laurent Richard, founder of Forbidden Stories, was invited to speak last weekend at the Logan Symposium at UC Berkeley in California in front of many US investigative journalists and executives.

At a time when threats against the press are intensifying worldwide, there is strength in numbers.

When reporting on sensitive topics, collaboration becomes more than a method. It can serve as a form of protection and deter enemies of the press: it is far harder to simultaneously silence many journalists working together.

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03/05/2026

🛑 On this , what a great recognition for the work of our organization and all our partners around the world, to be featured in the BBC News BBC World Service program “People fixing the world”.

Every day our team of reporters is pursuing the work of others who have been killed, jailed or threatened.

More than 250 journalists under threat are also sharing their ongoing investigation with us. And they are making this very clear: ‘if you try to silence me, other reporters will amplify my work’.

🛑 Please take the time to listen to this BBC program and learn more about Tamia Villavicencio and other journalists at risk, what they are facing every day and how collaborating with international teams of reporters is the best way to respond to threats. In this podcast Tamia says: “We have a really good family of journalists around the world. That makes me feel really secure, because I know even if I’m not here Forbidden Stories is going to continue my work."
👉 https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0nhsc9r

🛑 And please (bis): consider making a donation to Forbidden Stories if you want to support press freedom and investigative journalism.
👉 https://forbiddenstories.org/donate/

03/05/2026

🎙️🇲🇽 “Independant journalism has the potential to make people’s lives better. If we depend only on a local protection mechanism it will not be enough sadly. What we need is more international collaboration, with organizations like Forbidden Stories”.

In an interview with Australian magazine , Mexican journalist and member Jesús Ibarra calls on reporters around the world to join forces in the face of threats.

👉 In April 2024, Jesús Ibarra joined more than 250 journalists at risk who secure their sensitive data through Forbidden Stories’ network. He has made his affiliation to the SafeBox public to deter potential threats related to his reporting.

📰 With our international media partners, we will ensure their investigations continue if they are ever silenced.

More info on our website : https://forbiddenstories.org/safebox/

Watch the original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k54_Tjyqub0

@ Finley Monaghan-McGrath

03/05/2026

02/05/2026

🔴 D-1 ⏱️Ahead of the (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

These are women and men who risk their lives every day to keep people informed: 37% of respondents have already been physically attacked, abducted, and/or arrested, while nearly one in three report receiving threats at least once a month.

The findings unveil new data on the risks facing journalists worldwide – and, for the first time, outline a more effective way to tackle them.

🎯 To the question: Since becoming a member of the SafeBox Network, how do you feel?

👉 75% of respondents report feeling "more protected" and/or "less isolated" since securing their ongoing investigations with Forbidden Stories through the SafeBox Network.

📰 Read the full survey: https://forbiddenstories.org/actualites_posts/exclusive-global-survey-journalists-under-attack-share-how-to-fight-back/

🫴 To support our work and help us continue pursuing the work of threatened journalists : https://forbiddenstories.org/donate/

01/05/2026

🔴 D-2 ⏱️ Ahead of the (May 3), Forbidden Stories conducted an unprecedented global survey of more than 200 threatened journalists across 53 countries and four continents.

These are women and men who risk their lives every day to keep people informed: 37% of respondents have already been physically attacked, abducted, and/or arrested, while nearly one in three report receiving threats at least once a month.

The findings unveil new data on the risks facing journalists worldwide – and, for the first time, outline a more effective way to tackle them.

🎯 To the question: In your opinion, which of the following three situations would the people threatening you dread the most?

👉 Up to 68% of investigative journalists said those actors who attack them most dread global journalistic investigations, more so than NGO statements (15%) or legal action (17%).

🎯 To the question: In your opinion, could the people who threaten you or are bothered by your investigations be afraid that an international network of journalists might investigate their possible “interests” abroad?

👉 83% of respondents say those targeting them could be concerned about international investigations into their assets and activities abroad.

📰 Read the full survey: https://forbiddenstories.org/actualites_posts/exclusive-global-survey-journalists-under-attack-share-how-to-fight-back/

🫴 To support our work and help us continue pursuing the work of threatened journalists : https://forbiddenstories.org/donate/

30/04/2026

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