Gaston Sawadogo

Gaston SAWADOGO is a freelance journalist. He investigates on organized crime, smuggling, corruption, urban crime, cybercrime, money laundering, terrorism financing. He has taken part in several transnational investigations into cigarette and drug trafficking in the Sahel, in collaboration with the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). He has been the Editor-in-chief of L’Evénement in Burkina Faso. He currently works for OCCRP. In 2021, he was honored with the Norbert Zongo Prize for Investigative Journalism for his story "Pretrial Detention: More than 200 People in Prison without Trial." Sawadogo visited prisons in five cities to document the situation of people held in preventive detention. The investigation began with a chat Sawadogo had with a prison security guard.