Zeba Siddiqui - Contact & Bio
Hello,
My name is Zeba Siddiqui and I’m a cybersecurity reporter with Reuters in San Francisco, covering digital espionage, cyber crime, propaganda and disinformation, especially as they relate to politics and human rights. Below are some ways to contact me.
Signal (preferred method) and WhatsApp: +1-415–910–1794
Telegram: My username is @zebazebazeba, or you can also follow this link to open a new Telegram chat with me: https://t.me/zeba
Email:
zeba(dot)siddiqui(at)tr(dot)com
zebawrites(at)protonmail(dot)com
Twitter: @zebatweets (I only post tweets when I have a new story to share, but check my DMs regularly, so feel free to reach out)
Threema: 37HMCCZZ
Reuters SecureDrop:
By post:
Zeba Siddiqui
Thomson Reuters
50 California Street #300
San Francisco, CA 94110
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MORE ABOUT ME
I moved to San Francisco in May 2022 from New Delhi, where I covered politics and general news for Reuters in India, primarily tracking the rise in right-wing extremism in the country. My work has largely been investigative in nature and focused on conflict, migration, and extremism.
In 2019, my reporting and writing on the Rohingya crisis as part of a Reuters team was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting and several other awards — work for which I was extensively based at the refugee camps at Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar between 2017 and 2018. My reporting in the series revealed the elite Myanmar army units behind the genocidal campaign against the Rohingya, profiled a young Rohingya woman’s extraordinary escape from the violence, and Myanmar authorities’ moves that could make the purge of the Rohingya permanent.
As a foreign correspondent in Bangladesh, I’ve reported on the aftermath of the country’s worst terror attack in 2016, mass protests, and violent parliamentary elections in 2018.
I was born and brought up in the cities of Lucknow and Mumbai in India, and speak Hindi, Urdu, and some Arabic. I gained a post-graduate degree in journalism from India in 2011.
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// SELECT WORK //
INDIA
Emboldened by Modi’s ascent, India’s cow vigilantes deny Muslims their livelihood
Besieged Kashmiri neighbourhood in test of wills with India’s Modi
‘He looked like a terrorist!’ How a drive in rural India ended in a mob attack and a lynching
In an Indian village, a woman’s alleged rape and killing opens caste divides
India’s use of facial recognition during protests causes stir
As they build India’s first camp for ‘illegal immigrants’, some workers fear detention there
India eases citizenship path for Hindus as Rohingya Muslims fear expulsion
Health experts say India missed early alarm, let deadly coronavirus variant spread
Tribute to Danish Siddiqui, a photojournalist colleague killed in Afghanistan in 2021
THE ROHINGYA CAMPS
Tip of the Spear: The shock troops who expelled the Rohingya from Myanmar
From Terror To Triumph: A Rohingya Woman’s Journey to the Impossible
Erasing the Rohingya: Myanmar’s moves could mean the refugees never return
‘We are always missing you’: Torn apart by violence, Rohingya families connect through letters
Thousands of new Rohingya refugees flee violence, hunger in Myanmar for Bangladesh
A year on, Rohingya still fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh
Killings sow fear at Bangladesh refugee camps
Rohingya refugee leaders draw up demands ahead of repatriation talk
BANGLADESH
Shot in the back: The dangers of being an opposition candidate in Bangladesh
Ahead of Bangladesh vote, opposition says it faces a ‘reign of terror’
A 47-year-old war dominates election campaign rhetoric in Bangladesh
The uncle seeking to bring down Bangladesh PM Hasina
Voters alleged being barred from polling booths in Bangladesh election
Bangladesh PM rejects rigging allegations after landslide election win
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