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2 weeks ago | 
thefp.com | Jay Solomon |Tanya Lukyanova
Last month, The Free Press and the Center for Peace Communications sent a team of journalists to south Lebanon. They were there to retrace the steps of Hadi Matar, the 27-year-old Lebanese American man sentenced last week to 25 years in prison for assaulting and attempting to murder Salman Rushdie. With Matar found guilty and behind bars, you might think most of the big questions about this case have been answered.
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1 month ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
The 60 Minutes interview with then-vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris that aired last October might have been the most controversial piece of journalism in the entire election campaign. CBS aired different edits of the interview—one in a promotional clip that aired on Face the Nation and one on 60 Minutes the next day. Amid …
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1 month ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
“The scum have arrived in Beit Lahia,” says the man behind the camera as he zooms in on the crowd of demonstrators. Thousands had poured into the streets of northern Gaza on Wednesday to protest Hamas’s rule—the latest outburst in a historic wave of demonstrations that engulfed the Strip last month.
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2 months ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks OutAfter they tortured him and mutilated his body, they dropped him off a rooftop with a note pinned to his clothes: ‘This is the price for all who criticize Hamas.’On March 29, in a neighborhood called Tel al-Hawa in southern Gaza City, Hamas brutally murdered 22-year-old Uday Nasser Saadi al-Rabbay, his family said. After Uday had been tortured and mutilated, his body was thrown off a tall building. His crime?
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2 months ago | 
open.substack.com | Tanya Lukyanova
On March 29, in a neighborhood called Tel al-Hawa in southern Gaza City, Hamas brutally murdered 22-year-old Uday Nasser Saadi al-Rabbay, his family said. After Uday had been tortured and mutilated, his body was thrown off a tall building. His crime? He had spoken out—loudly and publicly—against the terrorists who rule Gaza with an iron grip.
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2 months ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
Right now, Gaza is witnessing the largest protest against Hamas since October 7, 2023. For the third straight day, Palestinians are pouring into the streets across the Gaza Strip, openly defying the militant group they blame for the devastating 17-month-long war with Israel. Over the course of its rule, Hamas has not tolerated dissent, and has been known …
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2 months ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
In Iran, the act of converting from Islam to any other religion is punishable by death. In America, one of the strongest historical rationales for immigrants seeking asylum has been the fear of religious persecution. Yet on February 9, when Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian Christian convert, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, after an arduous trip that took her from Iran to Dubai to South Korea and finally Mexico, she said she was never asked about her reasons for seeking asylum.
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2 months ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
Syria has just witnessed its deadliest bloodshed since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad last December. In just four days, between March 6 and 10, more than 800 people were killed in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). But who killed them, and why? As graphic videos of the atrocities flooded social media, so did misinformation.
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2 months ago | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
On Tuesday morning, around 6:00 a.m., Andrei, who lives in the Moscow suburbs, awoke to the sound of war crashing through his window. First, he heard what sounded like a shot—that was the Russian air defense system kicking in. The same sound rang out again. Then a whistling dive, the unmistakable sound of something mechanical, something deliberate, slicing through the sky. The explosion came next. A drone had hit his home.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
thefp.com | Tanya Lukyanova
How the U.S. Government Controls the Ukrainian MediaIn Ukraine, forced conscription has become a scandal. But the U.S.-funded media outlets won’t cover it. The camera was rolling when chaos erupted. It was January 21, 2024, and an independent Ukrainian journalist named Ostap Stakhiv was livestreaming a call with Vasyl Pleskach, a man claiming he was being illegally detained by Ukraine’s infamous military conscription unit, the TCC.
