Silenced

Nov 07 2024 21 ep. 24 mins 62

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Stories from journalists around the world, who risk it all to report the truth. Presented by Nicola Kelly. Producer: Kevin Caners.

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S2, Ep 12: Ukrainian investigative journalist Anna Myroniuk

Nov 07 2024 20 mins

It's the 23 February 2022 and investigative journalist Anna Myroniuk is at home in Ukraine's capital Kiev, watching history unfold. President Putin has taken to the airwaves, delivering an address which any Ukrainian would immediately recognise as a declaration of war.For months there had been troop build ups and a steady drum of warnings that Russia was about to invade. Then, only

S2, Ep 11: Syrian investigative reporter Ali Al-Ibrahim

Oct 17 2024 17 mins

It's 2011 and a spark has been lit, the Arab Spring sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling despotic regimes one by one. In the Syrian capital Damascus, journalist Ali Al-Ibrahim is studying for a master’s degree at university when the protests reach the surrounding streets.It was a hopeful moment, that something might be about to change. Then the government of

S2, Ep 10: Exposing the Wagner Group's atrocities in Africa

Oct 02 2024 23 mins

Today the Wagner Group is known to many for the role it played in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in 2018, when Nigerian journalist Philip Obaji Jr began to investigate their activities in Africa, the group was still largely unknown.What Philip discovered was human rights atrocities on an unimaginable scale. In central and west Africa, the Wagner Group was exploiting the natura

S2, Ep 9: Sanjar Sohail, Afghan journalist and publisher

Sep 18 2024 27 mins

On 15 August 2021, veteran journalist Sanjar Sohail watched in horror as the Afghan capital Kabul fell to the Taliban once again. Though he was safe at his home in Canada, Sanjar was responsible for a network of reporters across Afghanistan. Fifteen years earlier, he had set up Hasht-e-Subh. The media outlet had gained notoriety for its investigative reporting, pioneering a new typ

S2, Ep 8: Vietnamese editor and journalist Quỳnh-Vi Trần

Sep 05 2024 21 mins

Though few people are aware, Vietnam now ranks at the bottom of all major global press indexes, its freedom of expression considered only slightly better than China and North Korea. In the midst of the global pandemic, a prominent author and journalist, Pham Doan Trang, was arrested on trumped-up charges of anti-state propaganda. She now faces nine years in prison.In this episode,

S2, Ep 7: Brazilian journalist Juliana Dal Piva

Aug 21 2024 23 mins

For many years, Brazilian investigative journalist Juliana Dal Piva had been a human rights reporter. But in 2019, when President Jair Bolsonaro rose to power, her attention turned towards corruption at the highest levels of government. Her investigations were to put her on a collision course with the President’s supporters and the military and commercial elites close to him.In t

S2, Ep 6: Yalda Moaiery, Iranian photojournalist

Aug 07 2024 18 mins

On 16 September 2022, Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery was out on the streets of the Iranian capital Tehran, capturing images of protests that were soon to sweep around the world.Days before, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl from Kurdistan, had been arrested by Iran’s morality police, accused of not wearing her headscarf properly. Shortly after that, news emerged that Mahsa h

S2, Ep 5: Georgian journalist Tornike Mandaria

Jul 25 2024 27 mins

Though it rarely makes news headlines, in the Southern Caucasus a geopolitical battle is underway. Georgia is locked between democracy - with closer ties to Europe - and authoritarianism, with the Russian bear looming ever larger.It all started in April 2024, when a new law was introduced dubbed the 'foreign agent law', which mandated that any organisation receiving more than 20 pe

S2, Ep 4: The case of Evan Gershkovich

Jul 11 2024 31 mins

On 29 March 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was on a field trip in the Ural mountains of Russia when he was arrested on spurious charges of espionage.Russia’s FSB - the successor to the Soviet-era KGB - had accused Evan of attempting to obtain classified information about a large military industrial complex, charging him with spying; charges the Journal, the U

S2, Ep 3: Hiba Morgan, Al Jazeera Sudan correspondent

Jun 26 2024 28 mins

With western media outlets dubbing the conflict in Sudan a “forgotten war”, what role do journalists play in making sure the world doesn’t look away?On the morning of 15 April 2023, Al Jazeera’s Sudan correspondent Hiba Morgan was up early, preparing to head out on a reporting trip northwest of the capital Khartoum. There had been something in the air for months; a sense th