Greece is operating a domestic black site on its border with Turkey, one of several hardline measures aimed at stopping a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis

Our visual investigation, with @MatinaStevis, @heytherehaIey, @SarahAlmukhtar, @malachybrowne

nytimes.com/2020/03/10/wor… Our team also used forensic analysis of open-source videos to confirm the shooting of a Syrian refugee on the Greek land border earlier this month

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This is one of the oddest pieces I've reported

A secretive group of celibate, middle-aged Iranian dissidents is holed up in a valley in ... Albania

They usually turn journalists away, sometimes quite aggressively

But when I turned up, they let me in

nytimes.com/2020/02/16/wor… Where to start?

Perhaps with those who've escaped the MEK, and now live a sad life elsewhere in Albania.

I met 10 of them, who each described being brainwashed into a life of celibacy.

All recounted being forced to participate in daily Mao-style self-criticism rituals

Thousands brave cold to protest against Orbán, in one of the most sustained expressions of street opposition since he entered office 8 years ago. Our report nyti.ms/2GiBskc Article updated to include details of the assault on an opposition MP, @hadhazyakos, after he entered the state broadcaster to ask for coverage of the protest and its demands. nytimes.com/2018/12/16/wor…

Hillary Clinton says centrist European politicians need to get a handle on migration in order to stop populists. But that is exactly what European centrists have already been doing and saying for 3 years — with no clear political outcome. It was centrist politicians like Merkel and Timmermanns who forged a deal with Turkey in 2016, cutting migration to Greece by 90%. It was the centrist Marco Minniti, not the far-right Matteo Salvini, who cut flows to Italy by 70% by negotiating with Libyans in 2017.

Having consolidated power at home, Viktor #Orban's proxies are now shoring up his allies across Central and Eastern Europe — by buying up or founding right-wing media outlets. My latest article nytimes.com/2018/06/04/wor… One beneficiary has been Janez Jansa, the right-wing nationalist whose party won the Slovenian elections on Sunday. If Jansa manages to form a coalition govt, #Orban would have another strong ally at the EU council

Last month I wrote about Viktor #Orban's assault on the hardware of #Hungary's democracy — its constitution, electoral system and judiciary. Here's the follow-up piece on how he's also gone after its "software" — culture, civil society, and education nytimes.com/2018/03/27/wor… You can see it in the little changes to the textbooks