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Paul Peachey

Paul Peachey

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Paul has been based in London for The National since July 2017. He worked as a crime correspondent for a decade, and has been a staffer for newspapers and international news wires covering the UK, Middle East, Asia and Africa. He has worked on TV documentaries and produced radio programmes for the BBC.
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Austrians Massud Mossaheb, left, and Kamran Ghaderi have both been jailed for a decade on 'baseless' espionage charges. Photo: Family handouts
Families of four Europeans jailed in Iran demand greater efforts for their release

The two German and two Austrian dual citizens are being held as hostages by Tehran, say their families

WorldApril 20, 2022
Paul Peachey
Russian state TV showed footage of Aiden Aslin, a British fighter captured in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol by Russian forces. via Reuters
UK minister: We won’t help Russia with prisoner swap

Two Britons captured by Russian forces in Mariupol called for a prisoner exchange in a state television broadcast

UKApril 19, 2022
Paul Peachey
Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential election, meets voters in the southern commune of Pertuis, near Marseille, on Friday. Reuters
Le Pen allies soften headscarf policy before run-off

Opinion polls suggest French President Emmanuel Macron is leading before Sunday’s vote

WorldApril 19, 2022
Paul Peachey
US officials told the family of former FBI agent Bob Levinson in 2020 that he had probably died after being abducted on Iran's Kish Island. AFP
Levinson family want frozen Iran funds to be given to hostage victims

They await the return of the former FBI agent's remains 15 years after he went missing on Iran’s Kish Island

IranApril 18, 2022
Paul Peachey
Egyptians work to remove the wall between the antechamber and the burial chamber in Tutankhamun's tomb. Photo: Griffith Institute/University of Oxford
The forgotten Egyptians who helped to find Tutankhamun's tomb

A new exhibition is bringing to life the workers without whom the boy king's tomb might never have been discovered

WeekendApril 15, 2022
Paul Peachey
The ravaged Yarmouk camp, south of Syria's capital Damascus. AFP
Suspect in Germany accused of war crimes over grenade attack on food queue

Seven people died in the 2014 attack in the Yarmouk district of the Syrian capital

WorldApril 15, 2022
Paul Peachey
Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armoured vehicle in the city of Severodonetsk, in the Donbas region, on April 7. AFP
Mother of UK soldier in Ukraine ‘detained by Russians’ calls for his release

Ang Wood calls on Russia to treat her son as a prisoner of war in accordance with international law

UKApril 15, 2022
Soraya Ebrahimi
Migrants land in Kent on a lifeboat after being rescued in the English Channel in March. PA
UN opposes UK plan to move asylum seekers to Rwanda

Refugee agency says Britain is treating migrants ‘like commodities’

UKApril 14, 2022
Soraya Ebrahimi
A young child is seen amongst a group of people thought to be migrants as they are brought into Dover on Thursday. PA
Britain to send asylum seekers to Rwanda on 'one-way ticket'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to cut small boat crossings to ‘zero’ as charities criticise ‘cruel and nasty decision’ to send migrants to East Africa

UKApril 14, 2022
Soraya Ebrahimi
A female prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran's Evin prison. Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl
Iranian prisoners ‘left to die after pleas for medical help ignored’

Report by Amnesty International reveals deaths following neglect of prisoners across the country

WorldApril 12, 2022
Paul Peachey
Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in April 2016 and sentenced to death by Iran, who claim he was spying for Israel.
Prison staff beat Swedish-Iranian academic in Iranian jail over stolen medicine

Rights group says Ahmadreza Djalali was attacked after he complained that his medication was being stolen

WorldApril 11, 2022
Paul Peachey
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visited Kyiv at the weekend with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to review the impact of the war. EPA
EU to discuss war crimes strategy in Ukraine meeting

Foreign ministers gather in Luxembourg for discussions about next steps against Russia

EuropeApril 11, 2022
Paul Peachey
People protest against increased petrol prices in Tehran in 2019, rallies that drew a lethal response from the regime. Wana via Reuters
Iran targets witnesses of deadly repression after nationwide protests

The families of at least six witnesses have been earmarked after they gave evidence to a tribunal in London

UKApril 07, 2022
Paul Peachey
The European Court of Human Rights ordered the payout to the two Moroccan women over their treatment in foreign embassies in London. EPA
UK ordered to pay nearly $150,000 over embassy labour abuse

Two Moroccan women were unable to bring cases to court claiming unpaid wages by Libyan and Sudanese authorities

UKApril 06, 2022
Paul Peachey
Syrian refugees walk through mud as they cross the border from Greece into North Macedonia, then called Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni in 2015. Reuters
North Macedonia's mass migrant pushback in 2016 judged legal

Group of eight plans to appeal after European human rights court rules against them in border case

WorldApril 06, 2022
Paul Peachey
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