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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that show how the world really works, triggering positive change. We are driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed, that access to independently sourced facts is not only essential for democracy but is also a fundamental human right. ICIJ has directed the largest cross-border reporting initiatives

in history, convincing reporters across the globe to set aside traditional rivalries to uncover corruption, abuses of power and grave harms inflicted on the world's most vulnerable people. Our track record of breaking stories that rock the world has made ICIJ an indispensable news source, and a leader in the global battle for truth. For more information about ICIJ, see http://www.icij.org/about

07/11/2025

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control has levied a nearly $216 million penalty against a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that managed an investment on behalf of a sanctioned Russian billionaire with alleged financial ties to President Vladimir Putin.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control said the firm managed a $20 million investment for Suleiman Kerimov, a member of Putin’s inner circle, after he was sanctioned in 2018.

07/10/2025

More than a decade after the World Bank promised to make health care more affordable, high costs for lifesaving treatments impoverish families in East Africa.

Read about patients’ experiences at a private hospital in Nairobi’s Parklands neighborhood:

More than a decade after the World Bank promised to make health care more affordable, high costs for lifesaving treatments impoverish families in East Africa.

07/09/2025

In Denmark, the investigation has sparked concern across the political spectrum. Lawmakers told Politiken they want a government inquiry into the scale and scope of China’s transnational repression on Danish soil.

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Lawmakers from across the political spectrum condemned Beijing’s “scary” tactics and said European governments should do more to protect dissidents.

07/08/2025

In Kenya, where only about a quarter of the population was insured in 2023, health care is scarce and often ruinously expensive. But a private hospital backed by the World Bank Group's International Finance Corp. was supposed to be different.

Read our latest, published with Mother Jones, Africa Uncensored and The Lancet:

A surge in private equity funding for hospitals left a trail of crushing debts, patient detentions and broken promises.

07/07/2025

Since Xi took power in 2012, Beijing’s repression against dissidents and members of oppressed minorities overseas has intensified, according to experts interviewed for ICIJ's latest investigation .

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ICIJ’s partners found dozens of cases where critics of the Chinese government were tracked down and targeted in countries from Belgium to Korea and beyond.

07/04/2025

The U.N. grants thousands of NGOs “consultative status” — granting certain privileges with the expectation that they act without governmental interference. But ICIJ's revealed more than half of 106 Chinese NGOs with special U.N. accreditation are connected to the government or Communist Party.

An ICIJ investigation exposes how Beijing abuses international institutions, including Interpol and the United Nations, to terrorize its critics and extend its repressive tactics worldwide.

07/03/2025

Activists’ detentions identified as part of ranged from one hour in a police van to more than two months in an immigration prison. In four countries, ICIJ found, police detained activists before they had a chance to protest.

In country after country, local authorities detained and silenced activists to shield the Chinese leader from dissent.

07/02/2025

Read our FAQs to learn how ICIJ used data to:

- Understand the methods behind China’s global repression campaign
- Investigate the extent to which the U.N. has failed to protect human rights defenders who challenge China
- Explore how China exploits Interpol

What's transnational repression? Is China Targets based on leaked documents? What's a GONGO? These questions and more, answered.

07/01/2025

For , ICIJ and its media partners collected protest-related photos, videos, police records and court filings, and interviewed more than a dozen activists who were detained during Xi Jinping’s international trips.

Read the seven case studies:

In country after country, local authorities detained and silenced activists to shield the Chinese leader from dissent.

06/30/2025

ICIJ is a 100% donor-supported, independent investigative news organization committed to truth and transparency as the pillars of democracy. Support our journalists with a donation today.

We work together with investigative journalists around the globe to investigate the most important stories in the world.

06/27/2025

A recent leak reveals how construction giant Zagope for years fed off Equatorial Guinea's ill-fated plan to turn its rainforest into a new Dubai — a “kleptocratic strategy” of building massive prestige projects, as one analyst put it.

Leaked documents reveal the government awarded a Portuguese construction giant with ties to the vice president $1 billion in contracts as it splurged on a Paris-inspired capital, an empty airport and other long-forgotten infrastructure projects.

06/26/2025

Dozens of journalists from El Salvador have gone into exile over the last month in the face of escalating government harassment, intimidation and arbitrary press restrictions, according to the Journalists Association of El Salvador.

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The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.

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ICIJ is unlike any other media organization in the world. We work with leading news organizations worldwide to investigate and publish/broadcast in-depth, cross-border investigations.

The need for ICIJ has never been greater. The world is losing investigative eyes and ears precisely when we need them most. “We want to bring accountability on a global scale by bringing journalists together to safeguard the truth, and each other,” said our director, Gerard Ryle.

Meanwhile, in many developing countries, investigative reporters are killed, threatened, or imprisoned with alarming regularity. These journalists are in dire need of support from their ICIJ colleagues abroad.

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