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In Bahrain, a leading human rights activist has just been sentenced to life imprisonment, having been brutally tortured and raped. His daughter and other activists also languish in cells, for protesting on the streets and online.

The WikiLeaks #SyriaFiles reveal that before the revolution, Bashar al-Assad emailed Internet jokes about Gaddafi, women and watermelon. When the revolution began, he turned from clown to conspiracy theorist.

French news site Mediapart claim that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s closest ally, Brice Hortefeux, met with Libyan officials to arrange for Muammar Gaddafi to donate €50 million to Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign. OWNI pieced together his movements at the time.

FinFisher, part of the British company Gamma, are purveyors of some of the most dangerous spying weapons currently used by states. OWNI, in partnership with WIkiLeaks, can reveal the full and troubling details of their operations.

OWNI, in conjunction with Wikileaks, reveals evidence of how French company Amesys helped Gaddifi’s regime to spy on leading Libyan opposition figures while they lived in the UK and the US.

Amesys and Bull head honchos refuse to respond to accusations of involvement in a Libyan telecommunications surveillance scandal. Bizzarre, considering their press secretary is the daughter of the French Minister of Defense.

The War on Terror has cost $1,283 billion and has left between 227,000 and 300,000 dead. About 51% of these deaths are civilian casualties.

In Europe, the majority of bras sold in supermarkets for girls from 8 to 10 years-old are padded with foam. Is this ultimately sexualizing children before they are ready?

In France, what was supposed to be an emergency measure of internet surveillance after 9/11 led to a permanent legislation. Here’s the story.

More than 14,000 refugees died in ‘Fortress Europe’ since 1988. To measure the magnitude of the ‘war on migrants’, OWNI built an interactive map as an electronic memorial for these tragedies.