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Went undercover in Saudi Arabia to investigate hundreds of wealthy citizens selling their vulnerable maids online - on their version of eBay
I spoke to sellers flogging workers alongside cars & fridges on this disturbing black market app - still available on Apple/Google stores
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A Times investigation shows that hundreds of domestic workers are being illegally trafficked and sold to the highest bidders through Saudi Arabia’s largest online marketplace thetimes.co.uk/article/maids…
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"The son of Jimmy Lai has urged the prime minister @Keir_Starmer to intervene to secure the release of the imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and tycoon, whose health is 'rapidly' fading and who risks dying in prison."
Read the full piece from @ShaymaBakht @thetimes: thetimes.com/world/asia/arti…
#FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome
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Hello @SkySportsPL, this graphic has been taken from an article I wrote, citing an analysis by Skill Corner. If you read the piece (and credited it appropriately) you would realise that the analysis was from 2020.
See below:
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I followed the deadly smuggling route from Vietnam to the UK: speaking to residents of Billionaire Village - built on foreign wages, smugglers based in Hanoi's English-teaching nail academies, Vietnamese migrant camping in Dunkirk's Jungle and victims of modern slavery in the UK
You can read the story on The Times today and listen to the entire journey and its many twists and turns on The Story podcast.
thetimes.com/world/asia/arti…
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The Home Office has invested £7m in “smashing” Vietnamese smuggling gangs, but the corridor remains very much open
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I got access inside a Cambodian scam compound run by the Chinese Mafia - where workers must convince foreigners to invest in fake crypto-funds or face unspeakable torture, including electrocution and fatal beatings
You read the investigation here:
thetimes.com/article/6589c2d…
I spoke to British families stranded in Kashmir as artillery fire and airstrikes continue, despite the ceasefire. Read: thetimes.com/article/c3bac7c…
Spent weeks infiltrating smuggling groups for Russia’s “hybrid war” to push migrants into Europe
Since January, dozens of adverts have directed thousands of Middle Eastern refugees to the Uk - flying from Moscow or Minsk
Our paywall is down. Read for free
thetimes.com/article/f0cd6e1…
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As Warsaw battles to stem the flow of people pushed to the border by Russia and its ally, hundreds are stranded in no man’s land — and many never escape ⬇️ thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
NEW: Inside Poland’s Death Zone, where migrants are pawns for Belarus
Read our dispatch to the border where we uncovered hundreds of plots by Belarusian and Middle Eastern smuggling networks to push people from across the world into the EU
thetimes.com/article/6fbd408…
I was deeply moved while interviewing Hussein Julood, an Iraqi father, who is the first individual taking legal action against BP over its flaring practices after his son lost his battle against leukemia.
Read about why he refuses to back down: thetimes.co.uk/article/husse…
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The parents of Jenna Chan say they are being ‘stonewalled’ by the Maldivian government, their daughter’s school and the charity she was diving with ⬇️
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Sara Sharif’s father and step-mother have been found guilty of the 10-year old’s murder, and The Times is now able to publish this several months-long piece that investigates all of the secrets hidden away in Urfan’s house of horror.
With @benellery and @JanjuaHaroon
🔎 In depth: After her mother was accused of neglect and violence, the ten-year-old was left with a manipulative abuser
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I travelled to Dunkirk to track down the smugglers responsible for two tragic stampedes that killed three migrants & a toddler. One tells me he has no regrets
But families of victims in unlivable camps say they will still risk their lives for the UK dream
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Hundreds living in the wasteland of Dunkirk's "Jungle" - including people that fled regimes, war and persecution - face brutal crackdowns from French police with tents snatched from families
But the smugglers insist they are able to continue operations - making 50k on most days