Shayma Bakht
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Shayma Bakht
@shaymabakht.bsky.social
Journalist, The Times.

Press Awards’ Young Journalist of the Year 2023 + PA 30under30| MHP International Affairs gold winner & 30towatch | JST Senior Fellow
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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 ⬇️
Inside Poland’s Death Zone, where migrants are pawns for Belarus
www.thetimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🚨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
January 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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 toxic household: the father and stepmother who killed Sara Sharif
After her mother, Olga Sharif, was accused of neglect and violence, Sara was left with a manipulative abuser and his wife
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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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.

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November 15, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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/
November 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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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...
November 14, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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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.

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November 14, 2024 at 11:21 AM