Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali
For more than three years in Mali, Wagner mercenaries have detained and tortured civilians in secret prisons located in military bases, according to Forbidden Stories’ investigation.
“A Place Where You Regret Being Born”: Inside Russia’s Taganrog Prison
When Yelyzaveta Shylyk was detained and questioned by Russian military forces, her interrogators threatened to send her to a Russian prison camp.
Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was pronounced dead in Russian captivity in October 2024, after being secretly held for months in Russian-occupied Ukraine and a Russian prison.
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.
Viktoriia Roshchyna, lost in “the gray zone”
Her investigation into the thousands of Ukrainian civilians illegally detained by Russia cost her her life. 45 journalists continued her work.