First Person Archives - Coda Story [STAGING]

I’m protesting Georgia’s ‘Russian law.’ The police beat me up mercilessly

Luka Gviniashvili and Isobel Cockerell

15 May

For migrants under 24/7 surveillance, the UK feels like ‘an outside prison’

Isobel Cockerell

13 Sep, 2023

Escaping China with a spoon and a rusty nail

Hashim Mohammed and Isobel Cockerell

5 Jun, 2023

Escape from Shanghai: my harrowing flight from the world’s strictest lockdown

Anonymous and Isobel Cockerell

28 Apr, 2022

Science & Health

I disguised myself as a Covid ICU doctor to care for my grandmother. Now, the Russian government is after me

Sergey Samborsky and Katia Patin

9 Dec, 2021

I was 19 years old and working at a nightclub — then I got caught up in a government phone-hacking scandal

Makuna Berkatsashvili

27 Oct, 2021

Confessions of a (former) Russian state TV reporter

Ilya Kizirov

25 Apr, 2017