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Bashar Deeb

OSINT investigator

Bashar is an investigative journalist with a specialization in digital investigations. He has participated in different teams that have produced groundbreaking reports on various issues such as the violation of human rights of asylum seekers at EU’s borders, Europe’s secretive phosphates trade with Syria, and tracking EU arms in conflict zones. In the past he has collaborated with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Forensic Architecture, BBC and Channel 4.

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Investigations

Surveillance Secrets
14.10.2025

Surveillance Secrets

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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Syria’s Stolen Children
11.09.2025

Syria’s Stolen Children

Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it a secret for years.
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Turkey’s EU-funded deportation machine
11.10.2024

Turkey’s EU-funded deportation machine

The EU has funnelled hundreds of millions of euros into a shadowy deportation system operating just outside its borders in Turkey. Syrian and Afghan refugees have been detained, abused and even killed as a result
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The Kutum massacre
09.09.2024

The Kutum massacre

Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.
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Sink the Boats
23.03.2024

Sink the Boats

The UK government is paying France to ‘Stop the Boats’. Now first-time footage reveals French police have violently intercepted dinghies sailing for Britain, risking the lives of people on board
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2,200 Frontex emails to Libya
12.02.2024

2,200 Frontex emails to Libya

Frontex has shared locations of migrant boats with Libya's coast guard more than 2,000 times in three years – despite watching them whip, beat and shoot at passengers
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Frontex and the pirate ship
11.12.2023

Frontex and the pirate ship

The EU’s border agency Frontex and the Maltese government are systematically sharing coordinates of refugee boats trying to escape Libya with a vessel operated by a militia linked to Russia, human trafficking, war crimes and smuggling.
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The Crotone Cover Up
02.06.2023

The Crotone Cover Up

Italy lied about its role in a shipwreck that killed 94 people – including 35 children – and the EU border agency Frontex helped cover it up
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The Left Behind
03.12.2022

The Left Behind

Tracing fate of Afghans who assisted the UK after fall of Kabul
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Flight of the Predator
30.11.2022

Flight of the Predator

Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa
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Invisible Workers
17.07.2020

Invisible Workers

Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU's farms at height of pandemic
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Masked men
23.06.2020

Masked men

Clandestine state forces behind most violent pushbacks, according to new evidence
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Cast Adrift
16.06.2020

Cast Adrift

Greek coast guard intercepts asylum seekers, abandons them on life rafts
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Torment in Turkey
08.05.2020

Torment in Turkey

Asylum seekers funneled to EU border are pawns in power game
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The Instagarchs
09.05.2023

The Instagarchs

How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media
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