Eloïse Layan

Mar 5, 2025 | novayagazeta.eu | Eldiyar Arykbaev |Eloïse Layan |Olesya Shmagun |Anastasia Korotkova

Despite Western sanctions designed to limit the flow of luxury goods to Russia, the world’s most exclusive and expensive cars — Tesla Cybertrucks, Rolls-Royce Cullinans, Porsche Cayenne Coupés — are still readily available in Moscow to those who can afford them, despite three years of sanctions.

Feb 26, 2025 | forbiddenstories.org | Eloïse Layan

Kyrgyzstan has become a hotspot for the smuggling of European cars into Russia. Despite Western sanctions, these luxury vehicles are increasingly on display in the windows of Moscow dealerships. They are part of a highly lucrative industry, investigated by now-imprisoned journalists and involving friends of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov’s nephew and a top Lithuanian athlete.

Nov 22, 2024 | forbiddenstories.org | Eloïse Layan

Impact News Three journalists from Abzas Media have been ill-treated in prison while COP29 is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. Editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi; reporters Nargiz Absalamova and Elnara Gasimova; and three other colleagues have been in prison for nearly a year.

Nov 8, 2024 | forbiddenstories.org | Eloïse Layan |Youssr Youssef

A villa on the French Riviera, shady business arrangements in Luxembourg, a disgraced public notary, and the shadow of Khagani Bashirov, a Franco-Azerbaijani businessman suspected of embezzling millions of euros: this is what we found when we completed the investigation of an imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist.

Jun 25, 2024 | forbiddenstories.org | Eloïse Layan

On December 15, 2023, Samer Abu Daqqa and Wael Al Dahdouh were reporting for Al Jazeera in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. While being accompanied by Civil Defense rescue workers, they were hit by Israeli fire. Abu Daqqa and three other people were killed. All footage was lost. Through testimonies and an open-source investigation, we retraced the day of their final reporting trip.