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The Assad Files

Ben Taub

The New Yorker

  • 2017 |
  • Article |
  • INTERNATIONAL REPORTING |
  • LIVINGSTON AWARD |
  • WINNER |

Ben Taub spent two months reporting from the hidden headquarters of an independent agency building a case for war crimes charges against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime. “The Assad Files” are the result of a secret office, an undisclosed European country and more than 600,000 pages of smuggled documents linking Assad to signed orders authorizing mass torture, murder and human rights abuses of tens of thousands of his citizens.

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