Welcome to my website.
My name is Billy Briggs and I’m a freelance journalist from Scotland who focuses on human rights issues. I've won awards for my journalism from Amnesty International and the European Union and my work has been published by many media outlets across the world including The Guardian, New Statesman, The Herald, Sunday Herald, Scotland On Sunday, The Scotsman, Mail On Sunday's Live Magazine, New Zealand Herald, Irish Examiner, The Sunday Times, World Politics Review and the BBC.
It is a privilege to be a journalist and my work has taken me to some unnerving but fascinating places. I've met Qassam fighters in Gaza and Maoist rebels in Nepal and carried out investigations into the rise of neo-Nazism in both Russia and Austria. I've also reported on human rights abuses in Guatemala, Israel, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Syria and the West Bank.
Please visit this website regularly for my reports and feel free to contact me with any comments or with regards to commissions. For latest news please read the blog I write for Amnesty International.
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