Forbidden Stories

Burundi became the 15th African country to conclude such a deal.

Forbidden Stories, a journalism consortium, estimates 25,000 people have been expelled worldwide under the program.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December on whether the policy violates due process.

For now, it has allowed the removals to continue.

And actually, interestingly, the Daphne Caruana Galicia story in Malta, which when she was killed was unfinished, was sort of finished by a consortium set up in her name.

And there are groups like Forbidden Stories set up by a French journalist, which are all across the world now encouraging independent journalists to band together to pull some of their work so that if one of them God forbid, is imprisoned or, for various different reasons, intimidated out of action.

Others can pick up the baton and continue the work.

They even, bizarrely, they have this thing, a digital safebox system where journalists can lodge their most sensitive materials and fact-finding evidence.

We started to realize that there wasn't very much information about where people were going, who was going, and what was in the deals.

It was at that point that the Forbidden Stories organization, which led this project, decided that bringing together a lot of different media organizations from different countries with different types of access would be the best way of addressing some of these questions.

Hmm.

I was really shocked by you just said 25,000.

Bye.

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[gentle music] That was Louisa Loveluck, and you can read her investigation into Trump's third-party deportations, which was done in collaboration with Forbidden Stories and other media organizations, at theguardian.com. And that's it for today.

This episode was produced by Saskia Colette and presented by me, Annie Kelly.

The policy illustrates how migration enforcement increasingly crosses jurisdictions, complicating responsibility for what happens after removal.

For further information, see Forbidden Stories, Fact Check Cuido, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and Human Rights Watch.

Jamaica takes slavery reparations into a rare constitutional process.

King Charles has referred Jamaica's slavery reparations petition to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, opening a formal legal process over Britain's historic responsibility.

Both, if that's not contradictory in a way.

It corroborates the 2023 Forbidden Stories leak almost exactly down to the segmentation scheme described in a leaked company brochure three years earlier.

So the product line is old.

What's new is it's now being rebuilt on a frontier model instead of as a bespoke analyst team, which is both much cheaper a way to relaunch a business than the previously being publicly exposed.

ICE is very opaque, very opaque about its intentions to remove people to third countries.

We've worked with 24 media organizations under the coordination of Forbidden Stories to investigate the migration deals between the US and African countries.

The US has itself disregarded and then compelled receiving governments to set aside bedrock principles of human rights.

We've retraced the journeys of people who've been deported to Africa and who've often been sent back to the very countries they fled.

In Berlin, the left party has won the most seats with roughly 25% ahead of the CDU.

The United States has deported more than 25,000 people to third countries where they have no ties, according to an investigation by Forbidden Stories.

The vast majority, around 20,000, were sent to Mexico.

The report says $410 million has been earmarked to pay receiving countries or UN agencies.

Uh, so every country has its own specificity, but I think they all learn from each other, and certainly, uh, you know, the...

W- when we did the Pegasus Project, uh, and investigated the use of spyware- Uh, along with, um, you know, media colleagues in, in Forbidden Stories in France and, uh, Le Monde, uh, Le Monde, Guardian, The Washington Post, uh, we, we, we, we saw how the Modi government was using Pegasus against, against, of course, the political opposition and human rights activists, but also in a big way against journalists.

My own phone was infected with Pegasus, me and another colleague from The Wire.

And so, so yeah, so, so the use of intrusive spyware, the use of, uh, of criminal cases, the use of defamation, and, you know, the, uh, ability to take down content, all of this is what Modi, uh, Modi uses.