OCCRP Partner Siraj Wins 2026 Samir Kassir Award

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The Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press has named Ali Al-Ibrahim, co-director of OCCRP member center Siraj, and Syrian investigative journalist Mais Katt as joint winners in its investigative reporting category.

The award recognizes  their September 2025 cross-border investigative project, “Syria’s Stolen Children: How the Assad Regime Turned Detainees’ Children into Hostages Between Intelligence Agencies and Orphanages.” Published a year ago following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, the investigation documents how officials from al-Assad’s security services abducted hundreds…

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Primary source: OCCRP · September 29, 2026

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