Manisha Ganguly

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly |Michael Safi

Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist known as Vika, was determined to report on Russia’s “black sites”. “These ‘black sites’, they’re not prisons; there’s no control on behaviour there,” Juliette Garside, an editor at the Guardian, tells Michael Safi. “So it’s where we know that some of the worst war crimes, the worst human rights abuses, take place. “These are sites where largely civilians, anyone captured by the Russians, are held, often tortured.

1 month ago | rsn.org | Manisha Ganguly |Shaun Walker |Pjotr Sauer |Tetyana Nikolayenko

ALSO SEE: Ukraine, US Sign Minerals Deal Sought by Trump Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious. Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylyk was given a polygraph test.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Manisha Ganguly |Artem Mazhulin |Pjotr Sauer |Lucy Swan

Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylykwas given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.

Oct 18, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Shakilur Rahman |Ayush Bhattacharya |Manisha Ganguly |Prerona Jana

AbstractMelioidosis, also known as Whitmore's disease, is caused by the deadly pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei and remains a significant global health concern, particularly in South Asia. The disease is contracted through exposure to contaminated soil, water, air, and food. Infected individuals often present with abscesses in internal organs such as the lungs, spleen, and liver, and in soft tissues, with severe cases leading to septic shock and acute pneumonia.

Oct 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Manisha Ganguly

The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso. “We must support … President Ibrahim Traoré … Homeland or death we shall overcome!” he says in a video that began circulating in early 2023 on Telegram. It was just a few months after the dictator had come to power via a military coup.