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The Washington Post

Former South China Morning Post journalist Kim Wall has reported from the depths of post-war Sri Lanka and from the capital of North Korea. While covering climate change in the Marshall Islands, she was quarantined and tested for exposure to radiation.
The 30-year-old freelancer, based in New York and China, is known among her friends as an intrepid reporter, skilled at exploring hard-hitting topics in obscure, and at times dangerous, locations.
She worked as an editorial intern and reporter in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post from June to September, 2013, covering news about China for the national desk.


To her loved ones, a reporting trip off the coast of Denmark appeared to be a relatively safe, mundane destination. It was, after all, less than 50km from her Swedish hometown.
But it was on this trip, aboard a submarine, that Wall vanished late last week. She was last seen on Thursday, departing from Copenhagen on the vessel along with its owner, a Danish inventor and amateur rocket builder named Peter Madsen, 46. Her family said she was working on a story about Madsen, who is well known in Denmark for using crowd-funding to build his own submarines and rockets.

Copenhagen police have arrested Madsen and detained him on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, although no body has been found, police said. As the search for Wall continues, police said they would like to talk with anyone who may have seen her leave the submarine.
Madsen deliberately sank the submarine on Friday, according to authorities, when he was rescued from Koge Bay. Officials later recovered the vessel.
“The sub has been searched and there is nobody on board - neither dead nor alive,” Copenhagen police homicide chief Jens Moller said.
Madsen has denied the charge, saying he dropped Wall off in the harbour of Copenhagen late on Thursday after she completed her reporting. Madsen has since changed his story, police said on Sunday, but declined to explain further.
Defence lawyer, Bettina Hald Engmark, said her client is “willing to co-operate” and has not decided whether to appeal the ruling that Madsen be held for 24 days while police investigate.
Police had been searching for the submarine, named the UC3 Nautilus, since Friday morning, when Wall’s boyfriend reported that she had not returned to Copenhagen on Thursday night as planned.
Krisitan Isbak, told a Danish news outlet that he spotted the submarine, and Madsen in the vessel’s tower, after authorities asked for help in the search. He saw Madsen go down into the submarine and reemerge shortly after. Then, the vessel began to sink, he said.
“There was no panic at all,” Isbak said. “The man was absolutely calm.”
Isbak described the scene further to the AP, saying “there was then some kind of air flow coming up and the submarine started to sink.” Madsen stayed in the tower until water began pouring into it. As the boat sank, he swam to a nearby boat, Isbak told the Associated Press.
Madsen spoke to Danish television station TV2, claiming the submarine sank after “a minor problem with a ballast tank,” which holds water to provide stability, “turned into a major issue.
“It took about 30 seconds for Nautilus to sink, and I couldn’t close any hatches or anything,” Madsen told the station. “But I guess that was pretty good because I otherwise still would have been down there.”
Wall’s family declined to speak in detail about her disappearance. But her mother said, “we still hope for her safe return.”
“It is with a great concern that we, her family, received the news that Kim is missing after an interview with Peter Madsen in Denmark,” the family wrote in a statement to the Committee to Protect Journalists. “We sincerely hope that she will be found and that she is well.”
Wall’s disappearance resonated among journalists around the world. Her reporting covered topics such as identity, gender, pop-culture, social justice and foreign policy. In addition to The South China Morning Post, her work has appeared in Harpers, the Guardian, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and many other publications.
A native of Malmö, Sweden, Wall graduated from Columbia University with masters degrees in journalism and international affairs. She received a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
The International Women’s Media Foundation described her as a “beloved member” of its community and said it was “enormously concerned” about her disappearance.
“We ask that the Danish authorities urgently make every effort to locate Kim and provide everyone who loves her with more information,” the organisation wrote in a statement. “The global press freedom community is united in standing with Kim, her family and colleagues.”


Ex-SCMP reporter Kim Wall vanishes after trip on inventor’s submarine - Danish police say it was deliberately sunk

The submarine UC3 Nautilus was recovered from Koge Bay after it went down last week. Photo: EPA

epa06140357 (FILE) Swedish journalist Kim Wall poses for a picture in Sweden on 28 December 2015 (issued 12 August 2017). Swedish journalist Kim Wall was onboard a private submarine 'UC3 Nautilus' owned by Peter Madsen. The submarine sank on 11 August in the day after being reported missing in the night of 10 August 2017. Media reports on 12 August 21017 state that Peter Madsen has been charged over the death of a Swedish female journalist who had been on board his vessel before it sank. EPA/TOM WALL MANDATORY BYLINE: TOM WALL **Endast för redaktionell användning. Bilden kommer från en extern källa och distribueras i sin ursprungliga form som en service till våra abonnenter** 15delete SWEDEN OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Police technicians board the amateur -built submarine UC3 Nautilus on a pier in Copenhagen harbour, Denmark, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, to conduct forensic probes in connection with a murder investigation. Danish police say they have not found the body of a missing Swedish journalist inside the submarine that sunk off the Nordic country's eastern coast last week. (Jacob Ehrbahn/Ritzau Foto via AP)

epa06139882 Danish submarine owner and inventor Peter Madsen after landing with the help of the Danish defense in Dragor Harbor south of Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 August 2017 (issued 12 August 2017). Peter Madsen reached dry land after a major search action on the water south of Dragor, where Peter Madsen's submarine sank earlier in the day after being reported missing in the night of 10 August 2017. A Swedish female journalist who was aboard the boat at the time is still unaccounted for. Media reports on 12 August 21017 state that Peter Madsen has been charged over the death of a Swedish female journalist who had been on board his vessel before it sank. EPA/BAX LINDHARDT DENMARK OUT

Danish inventor held on murder charge after home-made sub sinks and journalist disappears

An April, 2008 photo of submarine owner Peter Madsen. Photo: AP

epa06136997 A helicopter searches the area off of the Copenhagen Harbour, Denmark, 11 August 2017, where the world's largest privately-built submarine 'Nautilus' is reported missing with the owner and a journalist on board. Two rescue helicopters and three ships from the Armed Forces are looking for the private-built submarine around Copenhagen Harbor. EPA/BAX LINDHARDT DENMARK OUT

Danish submarine owner and inventor Peter Madsen lands with the help of the Danish defence in Dragor Harbor south of Copenhagen, Denmark August 11, 2017. Scanpix Denmark/Bax Lindhardt/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. DENMARK OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN DENMARK.

FILE - This is a April 30 2008 file photo of submarine owner Peter Madsenstands inside the vessel . Denmark's navy says that Madsen's privately built submarine that had been feared missing in Danish waters has been found and the crew is safe. The navy says that the 40-ton, nearly 18-meter-long (60-foot-long) submarine with at least two people on board had been "found sailing" south of Copenhagen. (Niels Hougaard /Ritzau. File via AP)

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A manslaughter case has been opened and inventor Peter Madsen detained, although no body has been recovered


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Update | Ex-SCMP reporter Kim Wall vanishes after trip on inventor’s submarine - Danish police say it was deliberately sunk

A manslaughter case has been opened and inventor Peter Madsen detained, although no body has been recovered