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Investigative Journalist Avoids Libel With A Unique Strategy

Last month saw the return to London of the OffshoreAlert conference on intelligence, investigations, and recovery in high-value international finance after the enforced break of over two years due to the Covid pandemic. The conference brings together lawyers, fraud investigators, bankers, regulators, law enforcement, journalists and victims from all over…

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November 15, 2022
Read more about the article Why We Must Support The Ordinary Heroes Who Risk Everything To Stand Up To This Brutal Regime
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Why We Must Support The Ordinary Heroes Who Risk Everything To Stand Up To This Brutal Regime

I’ve covered a lot of protests around the world but what is happening in Iran is really unique. First, this is no fast-burning flash of fury that could exhaust itself as it takes on the might of a seemingly impenetrable regime. This time — driven by courage and incredible sacrifice…

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November 11, 2022
Read more about the article GERMAN JAILED: Daughter Fights To Free Dad Initially Jailed For 25 Years After Filming Anti-Government Protest In Cuba
Luis Frometa Compte and his daughter Janie Frometa, 35, pose in undated photo. The man from Dresden, Germany, was jailed for 25 years in prison because he filmed a stick operation by the Cuban police. (Janie Frometa/Newsflash)
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GERMAN JAILED: Daughter Fights To Free Dad Initially Jailed For 25 Years After Filming Anti-Government Protest In Cuba

A daughter has launched a campaign to free her dad who was initially jailed for 25 years for taking a single video on his mobile phone of an anti-government protest march in Cuba. Luis Frometa Compte, 59, has been in prison in Cuba since 2021 and although his sentence was…

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October 26, 2022
Read more about the article Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz And The Interview That Was Never Published
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Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz And The Interview That Was Never Published

I think the PR team for Red Bull were puzzled as to why their boss, Dietrich Mateschitz, chose to give me one of his very few interviews back in 2005, seeing that he rarely gave more than one interview to journalists a year. I had asked them why he said…

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October 23, 2022
Read more about the article LEGS BROKEN: Jailed Iranian Journalist In Desperate Need Of Meds After Being Tortured And Legs Broken For Commenting On Protests
Hossein Ronaghi, an Iranian blogger and political dissident, poses in an undated photo. He was arrested along with his lawyers by security agents in front of the Evin Prosecutor's Office and transferred to Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, on Sept. 24, 2022, where he was allegedly tortured and both of his legs broken. (@hosseinronaghi/Newsflash)
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LEGS BROKEN: Jailed Iranian Journalist In Desperate Need Of Meds After Being Tortured And Legs Broken For Commenting On Protests

An Iranian journalist who was arrested by the country’s security police has reportedly been chucked into Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison without the medication he desperately needs. Hossein Ronaghi, a respected Iranian blogger, civil rights activist and open critic of the country’s oppressive political regime, was seized by police in front…

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October 20, 2022