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Recent Corrections

  • The news release was updated to reflect that Professor Nitasha Kaul had sought to visit India to attend a conference on the constitution and had denied any allegations of animosity towards India.

  • The dispatch “Indonesia Officially Adopts the Indonesian Term for ‘Jesus Christ’” was corrected to state that the Indonesian government has imposed the Arabic term “Isa al Masih” for Jesus Christ for the past seven decades, not six decades.

  • 3/18/2024: This report was adjusted on page 20 to clarify that Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham maintains control over most of Idlib governorate.

  • February 1, 2024: This interview  has been updated to reflect the death of Tamir Adar, which was announced by authorities in January 2024.

  • January 23, 2024: This news release has been updated to reflect the correct name spellings for Abbas (Mojahed) Kurkur, Mansour Dehmardeh, and the Intelligence Detention Center. 

  • December 21, 2023: 

    This press release has been updated to reflect the correct arrest dates of opposition figures Chaima Issa and Sofiane Zneidi. 

     

  • 12/18/2023: This news release has been updated to reflect the October date on which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not allow humanitarian assistance "in the form food and medicines" into Gaza through its crossings "as long as [Israel's] hostages are not returned." 

     

    1/15/2024: This news release has been updated to reflect the correct attribution for statistics provided regarding the damage and destruction to civilian infrastructure in Gaza.

  • Correction, December 4, 2023: This dispatch has been corrected to reflect that the number of babies found dead on November 28 at Al Nasr medical complex was four, based on a December 3 news report

  • This dispatch has been updated to remove a comparison between child deaths reported in Gaza by Gaza’s government media office and global child deaths in armed conflict verified by the United Nations.

  • An earlier version of this press release stated this visit is President Xi Jinping’s first visit to the United States since 2015. Xi made a visit to former President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2017.