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Apr 20 2015
5:26PM
I interviewed Lydia Cacho last week for the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland. Below is a link to my article, published yesterday. Cacho - a prominent investigative repor...
Mar 24 2015
10:52AM
I recently visited Pakistan to document the work of human rights activists who oppose the Taliban. In the city of Peshawar, I met with a journalist called Abdullah Malik...
Mar 6 2015
12:00AM
I recently visited Pakistan and interviewed an organisation based in Islamabad that focuses on information and communications technology to promote human rights. My repor...
Feb 18 2015
12:00AM
I recently visited Pakistan where I worked with a human rights organisation called Aware Girls, founded more than a decade ago by two sisters called Gulalai and Saba Isma...
May 8 2014
2:30PM
Please read the following report I wrote for Sunday Mail newspaper that was published on 5th May 2014, although not online. Please share and thanks for reading. Billy Bri...
Mar 3 2014
2:03PM
A version of the story below was published by the Sunday Mail in Scotland yesterday. It's about Oleksey Suprun who has been missing in Kiev for over two weeks now. Indeed...
Sep 2 2013
9:40AM
Please read my exclusive report for the Sunday Mail about how the UK govt granted export licences to firms to sell chemicals to Syria that could've been used to make nerv...
Jul 16 2013
11:25AM
Please read my recent story for Scotland On Sunday about a Chinese firm which uses bile milked from bears' gall bladders in 'health' products. The first link takes you to...
Jul 15 2013
11:11AM
Please read my latest report for The Herald about the problems faced by victims of FGM in Scotland. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/concern-that-mutilation-v...
Jun 11 2013
9:30AM
Please read my latest report which was published by the Yorkshire Post in the UK. It's a feature about Mordechai Vanunu, the man who revealed to the world details of Isra...
Apr 24 2013
8:50AM
Please read my latest report for Scotland On Sunday about a controversial deal a Scottish public body signed with the government of Bahrain. Human rights groups have expr...
Mar 26 2013
9:37AM
The trial of Guatemala's former dictator General Ephraim Rios Montt began last week with dramatic testimony. Please read this report from Carrie Khan. http://www.npr.org/...
Mar 12 2013
1:19PM
My latest report for Scotland On Sunday is about calls for an inquiry into a controversial deal between a Scottish public body and the government of Bahrain. Please visit...
Feb 25 2013
10:03AM
Please find below links to an article I wrote for Scotland On Sunday - published yesterday - about a controversial business deal between a public body in Scotland and the...
Feb 8 2013
9:40AM
Please read the following opinion piece published by El Faro following the first day of the historic trial of Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala. The pie...
Dec 10 2012
10:14AM
Please read an article I wrote for the Sunday Mail which was published yesterday. The report highlights the case of a man who's been detained in Dungaval Immigration Cent...
Nov 15 2012
1:40PM
Please read my latest piece published by the Sunday Mail newspaper on 11th November 2012. The article highlights a new report which exposes how the rapid expansion of min...
Nov 5 2012
4:16PM
Please read the following article - published yesterday by the Sunday Mail - about a new film which exposes how plantation workers in Cameroon suffer dreadful working con...
Oct 22 2012
4:24PM
Please read the following letter which was sent to me following the recent deaths of an asylum seeking mother and child who starved to death in London. Earlier this month...
Oct 5 2012
10:36AM
Please click on the link below to read a story written by Joseph Opio, a correspondent for the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) based in Uganda. Joseph's rep...
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