Core Team
Klaas van Dijken
Director
Klaas van Dijken is co-founder and director of Lighthouse Reports. As investigative journalist and editor, his works focusses on human rights violations at Europe’s borders and the involvement of governments and state-funded agencies. Before Lighthouse, Klaas worked as a conflict reporter and investigative journalist in Eastern and Central Africa and Afghanistan. His work has been published worldwide in print, online and tv.
INVESTIGATIONS
- The Kutum massacre
- Desert Dumps
- Sink the Boats
- Smoke and Lies
- Frontex and the pirate ship
- Smuggler, Warlord, EU ally
- The Crotone Cover Up
- Ethnic Profiling
- France’s forgotten Afghan spies
- Inside Croatia’s Secret WhatsApp Group
- Detained below deck
- Europe’s Black Sites
- Shot for Seeking Asylum
- Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
- “We were slaves”
- Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
- Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
- Who died at Europe's border?
- Unmasking Europe's Shadow Armies
- Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
- Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
- EU's Invisible Links to Wars
- Frontex Complicit in Pushbacks
- Recycling Lies
- UK’s toothless arms control
- Airbus maintaining Turkey's war
- Invisible Workers
- Masked men
- Cast Adrift
- The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
- Deep Pushbacks From Greece
- Sudan's violent new rulers
- Spain maintains war in Yemen
- Returns to Harm
- Under the Scandinavian radar
- Shadow Population
- Belgian Arms
- French arms, and deception
- Sudan's secret hit squads
- Italian arms serving dictators
- The Instagarchs