“It’s Silencing” – Albania Shuts Down TikTok
Journalists, civil society representatives, TikTokers and politicians talk to iMEdD about Edi Rama's decision, just two months before the elections.
“My Sister Asks Me Every Day if I Am Okay” — The Persecution of Journalists in Turkey
From the outset of the crisis—triggered by the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu—journalists have been targeted, and authorities have imposed restrictions on social media. What does the future hold for Turkey?
Houthi Weapons and the Two Deaths in the Gulf of Aden
What a private security executive in the Gulf of Aden reveals. The court documents on the Houthi weapons seizure operation in which two American commandos died.
The Antonov Crash in Kavala and the Serbian Arms Dealer
The Antonov’s cargo, parallels to previous arms smuggling cases, and its untracked flights through Greece.
Piraeus: A Shipping Container Bound for Lebanon
The 20-ton cargo of polyester resin seized at the port and the “Lebanese Resistance Movement.” What are “dual-use items,” and why do security gaps persist in European ports?
Syrian Shipowner in Piraeus on Sanctions List
A Houthi-linked exchange house, oil for Hezbollah, and two merchant ships at the centre of an international legal battle.
Reporting from Damascus
Elvira Krithari, the first Greek journalist to enter Syria after the fall of Assad, talks to iMEdD about working conditions on the ground and the presence of foreign journalists in Damascus.
Assad’s people in Crete and Glyfada
A shipment of 3 million "jihadist pills" and a travel agency in the southern suburbs of Athens.