Since 2022, companies belonging to Lőrinc Mészáros, who amassed a fortune from government contracts, donated more than $13 million to an online mouthpiece of the Fidesz party, a new Direkt36 investigation reveals.
Reddy and local guide Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”) went missing Sept. 19 in Djibouti City.
Yorgen Fenech appeared in court nearly a decade after the car-bomb killing of one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists.
The move follows years of legal harassment by government agencies and a wider, escalating crackdown on the Tunisian press.
Board members at the Central American media outlet say they were not given a reason for having their tourist visas to the U.S. revoked on May 2.
In 2025, China was the most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, a new Freedom House report found.
Ten years after the Panama Papers hit front pages around the world, ICIJ unpacks how the groundbreaking investigation came together, beginning with an unprecedented data leak.
The former Israeli intelligence officer’s spyware has helped some of the world’s most brutal regimes spy on journalists and political opponents.
Authorities accused Anin and his former colleague Ekaterina Fomina of disseminating false information on the Russian Armed Forces.
Farmers Bank, which featured in ICIJ’s Swazi Secrets investigation, and its founder are seeking damages from an independent media outlet that reported on the troubled banking venture.
ICIJ media partners are spearheading an attempt to overturn a law that could curtail crucial foreign funding.
A verbal threat by Lima’s mayor against veteran reporter and ICIJ member Gustavo Gorriti rocked the journalism community.
Amer Matar, the Syria Prisons Museum co-director and a former political prisoner whose testimony helped secure the first international war crimes conviction against a Syrian official, was held after attempting to leave the country.
A new book by reporters from Russian ICIJ media partner Proekt goes where none has gone before: Putin’s personal life and his inner circle.
The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.
Xinjiang police records detail a yearslong Chinese government push to silence the news outlet, which the Trump administration has dismantled.
Reporters for Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America grapple with the threat of returning to repressive countries following cuts to the federal agency that oversees their employers.
Many affected are the only investigative journalism organizations in poor countries or fragile democracies.
Assad regime collected intel on SIRAJ journalists after its reporting on Syria’s use of Western-made trucks triggered more sanctions.
Since the presidential campaigns started, at least eight journalists were imprisoned in Venezuela — an intimidation tactic that makes investigative reporting harder for independent news outlets such as Armando.Info, an ICIJ partner.
Men of War, which revisits an attempt to overthrow Venezuela’s government in 2020, is the opening night film for the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival.
A panel of expert journalists in tracking organized crime’s finances and operations share their top methods, tools, and security protocols.
Advocates say the guilty verdict against the two Stand News former editors sets a “dangerous precedent” for press freedom in the China-ruled territory.
GIJN surveyed dozens of investigative outlets in the region to ask them what defines Latin American investigative journalism, what its strengths are, and where it will go next.
After ICIJ’s investigation revealed the role Eswatini may have played in southern Africa’s illicit economy, members of the tiny kingdom’s parliament are seeking to prevent future leaks.