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Recent Corrections

  • UAE: Detention of UK National Appears Arbitrary

    This news release has been corrected to reflect the correct amount of time Smith spent in UAE detention

  • Myanmar: Lethal Force Used Against Protesters

    Please note this press release has been updated with the following line: ‘In the video, a woman later identified by medical staff as Mya Thwe Thwe Khine

  • UN Finds Torture, Forced Labor Still Rampant in North Korean Prisons

    Clarification: Additional material was added to compare the findings of the new OHCHR report with the 2014 COI report.

  • Russian Court Rules to Jail Navalny

    This dispatch has been corrected to reflect the accurate amount of time Navalny will have to serve.

  • Kazakhstan: Independent Union Under Threat of Suspension

    Update (February 5, 2021): In a blow to freedom of association and the right of workers to organize and carry out their activities without government interference, the Specialized Interdistrict Economic Court in Shymkent on February 5 suspended the independent Industrial Trade Union of Fuel and Energy Workers for six months for allegedly failing to register in accordance with Kazakhstan’s restrictive trade union law.

  • Greece: Migrant Camp Lead Contamination

    Update January 28, 2021: On January 27, 2021 the Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum’s press office shared by email with media outlets and with Human Rights Watch a 79-page document detailing the results from the soil sample testing conducted in late November 2020.

  • Uganda: Elections Marred by Violence

    This news release was corrected to reflect that police arrested 20 working with Citizen Watch-IT and the Women’s Democracy Network on January 14, 2020.

  • Kazakh Authorities Target Rights Groups in Coordinated Attack

    The dispatch was updated to remove reference to legal amendments adopted in 2015. The changes to the administrative code requiring nongovernmental organizations to report on receipt and expenditure of foreign funds was adopted in July 2016.

  • Yemen: International Justice Efforts Needed

    4/12/21: This press release has been updated to more accurately reflect the countries whose munitions were purchased and used by the Saudi and UAE-led coalition to carry out airstrikes that violated the laws of war in Yemen. Canadian government figures indicate that Canada has exported light armored vehicles, artillery systems, and heavy machine guns to Saudi Arabia in recent years, but independent monitors have not confirmed the use of these weapons in Yemen.

  • Yemen

    9/9/2021: A correction has been made to state that 18,400 civilians were killed and injured in the conflict.