Resource August 31, 2016

Meet the Journalist: Ben Taub

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A secretive team of war crimes investigators smuggled hundreds of thousands of documents out of...

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Image by Ben Taub. Europe, 2016.
Image by Ben Taub. Europe, 2016.

The Assad Files, a project for The New Yorker, tells the story of a group of war crimes investigators who smuggled 600,000 pages of government documents out of Syria. The investigators used these documents to build a case against the Syrian government tracing the systematic torture of tens of thousands of people to a policy that was crafted by the highest level security team within the Syrian government.

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