Shafagh Laghai

Shafagh Laghai was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist for ‘Back Channel Cooperation: How Frontex Helps Haul Migrants Back To Libyan Torture Camps.’

Shafagh Laghai was born in Iran and grew up in Berlin. There she studied journalism, political science and Iranian studies. Besides her studies, she worked as a fre​elance reporter for Deutsche Welle and travelled several times to Afghanistan and Pakistan for the station. In 2008, her traineeship took her to Cologne, where she then worked for the ARD Tagesschau. From 2013 to 2017, Shafagh Laghai was a correspondent at ARD’s Nairobi studio. In 2017, she was nominated for the Grimme Prize for her reporting from Africa. She joined the political TV magazine MONITOR on ARD in August 2017.​Shafagh Laghai

Maximilian Popp

Maximilian Popp was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist for ‘Back Channel Cooperation: How Frontex Helps Haul Migrants Back To Libyan Torture Camps.’

Maximilian Popp was born in Passau in 1986. He graduated from the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg and studied political science in Istanbul. He has worked for SPIEGEL since 2010, initially as a Reporter for the German Desk in Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin, and since 2016 as a correspondent in Istanbul. Since April 2019, he has been deputy head of the foreign department. He was awarded the Journalism Prize of the Southeast Europe Society for his reporting on Turkey.