Journalist, The Times. Press Awards’ Young Journalist of the Year 2023 + PA 30under30| MHP International Affairs gold winner & 30towatch | JST Senior Fellowhttps://bsky.app/profile/shaymabakht.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shaymabakht.bsky.social/post/3lgnmdl47rs24🚨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 warzones26 Jan 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:kfgboct2wflz445o7k7k3wc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgnmdl47rs24https://bsky.app/profile/shaymabakht.bsky.social/post/3ld2aexguhs2yI 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: https://www.thetimes.com/article/d16d81da-d908-4cad-9238-14e7c2caf624?shareToken=0bd8c150e91d9343bc42cdcdeaa0a66411 Dec 2024 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:kfgboct2wflz445o7k7k3wc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld2aexguhs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/shaymabakht.bsky.social/post/3law6zc26vk2hHello! 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/14 Nov 2024 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:kfgboct2wflz445o7k7k3wc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3law6zc26vk2h