Riad Kobaissi is a Lebanese journalist known for his investigative journalism work in exposing corruption. In 2023, he won the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award winner for his work exposing corruption at the highest levels, including surrounding the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020, and has won two awards given out by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). In 2013, he was arrested in relation to his coverage of corruption in customs in 2013, but his case has never been brought to court. He says, “Until now, my case is still in the hands of the Military Court without a decision, so we can neither request a case review nor tell when it will be adjudicated.”