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For more than 15 hours, Abdulhakim Idris stared at the walls of a detention room in a Malaysian airport. The room, dirty and ridden with bed bugs, held dozens of detainees from around the world. Many of them slept on the floor.

Idris is the executive director of the Center for Uyghur Studies, a U.S.-based research and advocacy nonprofit. Last month, he traveled to Mala...

In May 2025, Kuochun Hung, the chief operating officer of the Taiwanese media outlet Watchout, received an email from someone purporting to be Yi-Shan Chen, a well-regarded local reporter.

“Chen” claimed to be working for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and was requesting an interview with Hung on a range of topics: then pending impeachment pr...

A German court has convicted the former co-owner of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca — the subject of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Panama Papers investigation — for aiding and abetting tax evasion.

Cologne’s regional court sentenced Christoph Zollinger, a Swiss-Panamanian dual national, to one year and nine months’ probation, according ...

After Bhinnata Piya’s mother was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2020, Piya was determined to be a supportive caregiver. Her father had died of the same type of cancer only three years earlier, and the loss devastated the tight-knit Nepalese family.

“When our dad died, I was just crying so much. We didn’t do enough,” Piya told the

ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation of Merck & Co.’s blockbuster drug Keytruda exposed the intricate web of patents that Merck and other pharmaceutical companies build to protect their profit margins and delay competitors from entering the market and offering po...