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Recent Corrections
This news release was adjusted to correct the spelling of Isa Eidmohammadi’s name.
This news release has been updated to correct the date of the first reading of the bill in the Iraqi parliament, which took place on August 4, 2024.
This dispatch has been updated to correct the information regarding the court’s decision. It now accurately states that one woman and three girls were remanded to pretrial detention in Siirt. We previously, and mistakenly, reported that two women and three girls were placed in pretrial detention.
In a previous version the name Birinci was misspelt as Binici.
This text has been edited to correct the number of signatories to the joint statement.
On July 3, this press release was updated to include a direct quote from LAION’s response to Human Rights Watch, instead of paraphrasing it.
The statement was corrected to clarify that 165 injured had been admitted to just one of the hospitals visited by Human Rights Watch, not across all the hospitals visited.
This article was updated on 4 July to correct the spelling of Sadykov’s name.
This statement was corrected to reflect that a witness told Human Rights Watch that around 6pm police officers chased several people from an area near the mine’s Gokona pits into the Nyabigena Primary School playground.
May 30, 2024: The text was amended to reflect that Zied el-Heni was accused of "insulting" the trade minister.