Amnesty’s open-source Raqqa investigation wins award

Amnesty International’s open-source investigation into the US-led Coalition’s bombing of the Syrian city of Raqqa has won a Times Higher Education award. The investigation helped reveal how the Coalition’s four-month military offensive against the Islamic State armed group in Raqqa in 2017 killed at least 1,600 civilians.  At an awards event in London last night, Amnesty and the University of Essex were given this year’s Times Higher Education award for International Collaboration. Sam Dubberley, Head of Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps, said: “Open-source investigations have really come into their own,…

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