Sylvène Gilchrist
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Sylvène Gilchrist
@sylveneg.bsky.social
Investigative Journalist with @CBC -
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The Lundin Oil trial in Stockholm is “the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes,” the columnist M. Gessen writes.
Opinion | Can a Corporation Be Complicit in War Crimes? Sweden Is Trying to Find Out.
It’s Sweden’s longest criminal trial. I was there because of a different historic distinction.
nyti.ms
December 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.

What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Introducing the #DamascusDossier investigation: A collaboration from ICIJ, @recherche.ndr.de and 24 media partners in 20 countries uncovers harrowing new details about former Syrian president Bashar Assad’s regime and one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st century.
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”

For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Meet one of Syria’s “shadow warriors.”

Hassan Al Hariri risked everything to help smuggle more than a million documents out of Syria during the war. They include evidence of war crimes that could one day hold Bashar al-Assad and his top officials to account.
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.
As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass
It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family
Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'
spectrumlocalnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets.

Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵

www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Syria’s Stolen Children
Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it...
www.lighthousereports.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Wonderful news: Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Iraq by the Kataib Hezbollah militia in 2023 has finally been freed from captivity.

Elizabeth remained 900 days stripped of the very freedom she spent her adult life advocating for.

Tonight I sleep with a smile on my face.
September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Syria’s Lost Children www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
Syria’s Lost Children
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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“Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif have been able to tell their own people’s story directly to the world. And Israel is methodically killing them for it, while many of their Western colleagues and international journalistic institutions remain shamefully silent”— my latest @theguardian.com
Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
cpj.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In honour of World Refugee day - Help NaTakallam Sustain Paid Work for Refugee Professionals chuffed.org/project/help...
Help NaTakallam Sustain Paid Work for Refugee Professionals
NaTakallam — meaning “We Speak” in Arabic — connects refugees and conflict-affected individuals with paid, remote work opportunities in the language sector. As an award-wining, market-based response t...
chuffed.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to contribute to their Quarter Mark series, to choose a date from the past 25 years that significantly impacted the Mideast. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint an event - the 2003 US invasion of #Iraq.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The Iraq war may have ended, but its lingering impact – on the Middle East and beyond – has not
America’s invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 and the lies underpinning it are perhaps the single most significant development in the Middle East this century
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM