English: Disruption Network Lab

An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin.

Berlin, April 5-6, 2019 DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money & Power 15th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: https://www.disruptionlab.org/dark-ha... Twitter: @disruptberlin Facebook: /disruptionlab

Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli Community Director: Lieke Ploeger Programme Managers: Daniela Silvestrin, Nada Bakr, Monti Harmony

Credits: Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com Graphic: Jonas Frankki CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

5 April, 2019 18:30 - 20:30 SILENCED BY POWER: Anti-corruption Journalists and Whistleblowers Facing Violence and Persecution

Pelin Ünker (Freelance Journalist, Member of ICIJ.org, TR) Stéphanie Gibaud (UBS Whistleblower, FR) Khadija Ismayilova (Investigative journalist and Radio Host, AZ - on video), Moderated by Michael Hornsby (Communications Officer, Transparency International, UK/DE).

Introduced by the video: Daphne Caruana Galizia. Anti-Corruption Award Winner 2018 (Transparency International, directed by David Velduque, produced by Neurads).

This panel focuses on the personal impact of investigative journalism, truth-telling, and whistleblowing in the context of exposing offshore corruption and tax havens. The aim is to cover the work of courageous women that are suffering the consequences of their activities in the field of anti-corruption, paying with their life, direct threats, travel bans, and limitations to work. The panel is introduced by the video "Daphne Caruana Galizia. Anti-Corruption Award Winner 2018", an interview with Paul Caruana Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the investigative journalist from Malta who was assassinated on October 16, 2017, when a bomb placed under the seat of her car exploded. Daphne Caruana Galizia uncovered a thread of hidden connections linking major multinational deals, passport sales, and global money-laundering operations, leading her investigation to the heart of Malta’s government. Journalist Pelin Ünker will present the story of her reporting on the then Prime Minister's connections to corporations in Malta, as revealed in the Paradise Papers. She currently faces trial and a prison sentence in Turkey. Stéphanie Gibaud, a whistleblower from France, will tell her story of revealing tax evasion and tax fraud by the investment bank UBS. Finally, the panel will show a video contribution by Khadija Ismayilova, the Azerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host well known for her reports on corruption in Azerbaijan, who faces 3.5 years in probation, a two-year ban on professional activity, a travel ban and other restrictions, after being imprisoned in December 2014. The panel is moderated by Michael Hornsby, communications officer at Transparency International.