The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

1 week ago | icij.org | Scilla Alecci

Leaked Chinese government records show Beijing’s systematic reprisals against Uyghur reporters working for a news organization that is now in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. The documents include a list of names with addresses, professions, phone numbers and other private details of 42 “sensitive and special” people who had allegedly been in “close contact” with Uyghur journalist Shohret Hoshur, 60. Hoshur, who escaped China in 1994, has been a reporter for Radio Free Asia (RFA) since 2007.

2 weeks ago | icij.org | David Kenner

A case that the Justice Department has described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history culminated on Wednesday with businessman Douglas Edelman pleading guilty in a Washington courtroom to conspiracy and making false statements to U.S. authorities, along with several other criminal charges.

2 weeks ago | icij.org | Sam Ellefson

Cyprus missed the European Union’s deadline to create a long-awaited national sanctions implementation unit after objections from the Cyprus Bar Association prompted lawmakers to delay passing the necessary legislative package. The bar association pushed back against the legislation during a May 12 parliamentary committee hearing, arguing it violated the Cyprus constitution by allowing the unit to operate in English, which is not an official language of the country.

3 weeks ago | icij.org | Fergus Shiel

You could call it the Deadly Poets Society. As he rose to become a cartel godfather, Christopher Kinahan Sr. wrote and edited poetry and prose under a pen name as part of a high-security prisoners’ writing group that included a killer with mystical pretensions. And, in a twist fit for a thriller, Kinahan later named two of his companies with the same nom de plume he had used as the editor-of-choice for feared Irish felons: Cian Sharkhin — an anagram of Chris Kinahan.

3 weeks ago | icij.org | Sam Ellefson

Two days before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Malaysia in April, police officers arrested more than 70 Falun Gong practitioners and allegedly held them until after Xi left the country, echoing a pattern of detention identified by ICIJ in its recent China Targets investigation.