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Recent Corrections
- December 13, 2022
12/12/2022: This version of the press release has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of Majid Reza Rahnavard's name.
12/13/2022: This version of the press release has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of Mehdi Karami's name and the date of the beginning of the protests.
- December 8, 2022
Indonesia’s new criminal code provision on apostasy is article 302, not 304 as originally cited.
- December 6, 2022
Update: This news release was updated to accurately reflect the name of the person referred to in the Twitter post.
- December 1, 2022
12/19/22: We have updated the online and PDF version of this report to reflect that fact that the Hungarian government responded to our report and covering letter after our publication date and to include the Hungarian government’s response as an appendix to the report.
- November 23, 2022
11/23/2022: This version of the press release reflects the correct spelling of the city Dehgolan and Aram Habibi's name.
- November 10, 2022
The dispatch “Philippines Swiftly Investigates Journalist’s Killing” published on November 10, 2022, inaccurately stated that alleged middleman Cristito Villamor Palaña surrendered to the authorities before being found dead. Palaña was already in prison at the time for another case when the accusations were made against him. Only the confessed gunman, Joel Escorial, turned himself in to the authorities. Hours after Escorial’s surrender, Palaña was killed inside the New Bilibid Prison, which is run by the corrections bureau.
- November 10, 2022
We corrected the timeframe of when Malian authorities suspended Radio France Internationale and France 24.
- November 2, 2022
The Chibok schoolgirls abduction occurred in 2014. This publication has been updated to reflect the correct date.
- October 21, 2022
The press release was corrected to remove inaccurate information about the Uniting for Ukraine Program.
- October 5, 2022
The date of an attack described by a protester in Sanandaj city in which security forces shot at fleeing protesters, wounding a man, has been changed to show that it happened on September 19.