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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm
In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
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New ICIJ Members
By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More
Alain Lallemand, Belgium, is a senior investigative reporter for Le Soir, the leading French-language Brussels daily.
Alain Lallemand, Belgium
He has written extensively on organized crime, drug trafficking , and guerrillas as well as more than a half dozen books on the Russian mafia in Europe, the boom of synthetic drugs, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His 1996 book on the Russian mafia was one of the earliest in-depth investigations into the activities of this new transnational criminal threat. Lallemand is also a lecturer in narrative and investigative writing at the University of Louvain.
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