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 ⬇️

🚨Dispatch to Poland-Belarus border where migrants are pushed to a no mans land called the “death zone” -over 130 bodies have been found

We follow a group of migrants fleeing this zone & uncover the channels of Belarusian smugglers selling flight packages to the EU, targeting those fleeing warzones

I travelled to Poland to speak to Sara Sharif’s relatives and was told about a decade of horror successfully hidden by her father Urfan

With insight from family & friends from the UK, Europe + Pakistan, this is everything The Times can now reveal about the Sharifs:
www.thetimes.com/article/d16d...

A tentative entry into the world of starter packs with a list of -

Investigative journalists working for major UK titles and broadcasters.

Small list for now. Follow them below and if you've been missed off drop me a DM.

go.bsky.app/ScQ3Y5s

Hello! Let me reintroduce myself: I am a reporter at @thetimes.com if you want to read how I went undercover in Saudi Arabia to reveal nation-wide human trafficking/ exposed predatory men who targeted refugees on the Homes4Ukraine scheme/ reported from ISIS prisons & the South China Sea on a boat/

Shayma's interview with a people smuggler is a remarkable piece of journalism from an increasingly hostile Calais environment. Give it a read here: www.thetimes.com/article/95af...

Shayma Bakht - Another one to watch, Shayma has won numerous awards as a talented young journalist and has worked on stories across Britain, the Middle East and beyond. Recently did a spectacular piece on people traffickers in Calais.

bsky.app/profile/shay...