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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 24/01/2025

As Warsaw battles to stem the flow of people pushed to the border by Russia and its ally, hundreds are stranded in no man’s land — and many never escape ⬇️

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Inside Poland’s Death Zone, where migrants are pawns for Belarus

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Shayma Bakht @shaymabakht.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🚨Dispatch to Poland-Belarus border where migrants are pushed to a no mans land called the “death zone” -over 130 bodies have been found We follow a group of migrants fleeing this zone & uncover the channels of Belarusian smugglers selling flight packages to the EU, targeting those fleeing warzones

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Shayma Bakht @shaymabakht.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I travelled to Poland to speak to Sara Sharif’s relatives and was told about a decade of horror successfully hidden by her father Urfan With insight from family & friends from the UK, Europe + Pakistan, this is everything The Times can now reveal about the Sharifs: www.thetimes.com/article/d16d...

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A toxic household: the father and stepmother who killed Sara Sharif

After her mother, Olga Sharif, was accused of neglect and violence, Sara was left with a manipulative abuser and his wife

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Shayma Bakht @shaymabakht.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How I accidentally tracked down the Kurdish smuggler in Calais responsible for the death of a toddler / visited a Yemen island/ or about my upcoming investigations into the death of Sara Sharif / following migrants escaping the so-called “death zone” on the Polish-Belarusian border … let’s connect

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Shayma Bakht @shaymabakht.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello! Let me reintroduce myself: I am a reporter at @thetimes.com if you want to read how I went undercover in Saudi Arabia to reveal nation-wide human trafficking/ exposed predatory men who targeted refugees on the Homes4Ukraine scheme/ reported from ISIS prisons & the South China Sea on a boat/

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Shayma Bakht @shaymabakht.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ah Emma thank you for sharing!

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Shayma's interview with a people smuggler is a remarkable piece of journalism from an increasingly hostile Calais environment. Give it a read here: www.thetimes.com/article/95af...

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‘I’m not sorry for what I do’: inside the people smuggling gangs in Calais

The Times tracks down a Kurdish man allegedly behind deadly trips on the Channel. Known as ‘Red’, he boasts he can earn €50,000 a day

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Shayma Bakht - Another one to watch, Shayma has won numerous awards as a talented young journalist and has worked on stories across Britain, the Middle East and beyond. Recently did a spectacular piece on people traffickers in Calais. bsky.app/profile/shay...

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