[Bio:]

Tareq is a London-based writer and investigative journalist currently focused on documenting the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

After training with the Press Association and receiving his accreditation from the National Council for the Training of Journalists in 2015, Tareq worked his way up from local news to covering international politics and foreign affairs for global publications such as Newsweek and the International Business Times.

In 2019, Tareq resigned from Newsweek when editors refused to publish disturbing revelations which emerged from the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – a U.N.-backed watchdog which came into force in 1997 to inhibit the use of weapons such as anthrax, sarin and other noxious or asphyxiating agents.

Thanks to the courageous whistleblowing of a leading OPCW weapons inspector, it emerged that the body issued falsified reports from Syria – three U.S. intelligence officials pressured management into doctoring findings so that Syrian President Bashar al Assad could be falsely blamed for an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma.

After numerous attempts at publishing the story were blocked by senior editors at Newsweek, Tareq made his resignation public and later published a detailed exposé revealing how a network of editors at major Western media outlets had dubious ties to the U.S. State Department.

• [Related link:] “Inside Journalist Tareq Haddad’s Spectacular Departure from Newsweek,” by Alan MacLeod, MintPress News (December 20, 2019).
• [Related link:] “Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative – Firsthand Account,” by Tareq Haddad (December 14, 2019).

Since, Tareq has focused his efforts on documenting the entirety of Julian Assange’s clash with the U.S. government dating back to 2008, including court reporting in every proceeding of Assange’s U.S. extradition proceedings that took place in London between 2020 and 2024. Tareq has maintained the most complete public archive of legal documents in the case.

He has also been a news reporter and assistant editor at Verity since December 2021.

You can support Tareq’s journalism here.

Tareq has been a life-long lover of art and started playing flamenco guitar in 2020.

[Timeline:]

Dec 2019 – Present	Writer and investigative journalist (London, U.K.)
Oct 2024 – Present Dec 2021 – Oct 2024	Verity (London, U.K.) News reporter and associate editor News reporter and assistant editor
Sep 2019 – Dec 2019	Newsweek (London, U.K.) News reporter
Jul 2017 – Sep 2019	Writer and EFL Teacher (Italy and Spain)
Apr 2017 – Jul 2017	Airwars (London, U.K.) Reporter
Sep 2016 – Jul 2017	The International Business Times (London, U.K.) News reporter
Aug 2015 – Dec 2016	The Hull Daily Mail (Hull, U.K.) Trainee reporter
Jun 2015	ITV News, The Home Affairs desk (London, U.K.) Volunteer reporter
Jan 2015 – May 2015	The Press Association, PA Media (Newcastle, U.K.) Trainee reporter
Jan 2015 – May 2015	The Chronicle, The Journal, The Sunday Sun, Trinity Mirror (Newcastle, U.K.) Volunteer reporter