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Recent Corrections
- September 26, 2022
9/27/2022: this press release was updated to more accurately reflect the claims made by the Algerian authorities about Bouhafs in their October 7, 2021, letter to UN experts.
- September 21, 2022
The article indicated that Gotabaya Rajapaksa was still outside of Sri Lanka. He in fact returned to the country on September 3.
- August 30, 2022
The English version of this piece misstated the name of the interviewee, and included discrepancies with the original French version of the interview. The piece also misstated the type of measure adopted in 2019. The government’s measure is an order (arrêté), and not a law.
- August 30, 2022
The piece originally mischaracterized the type of measures in Niger. The government of Niger repealed an exclusionary decision (décision), not a law, in 2019.
- August 29, 2022
An earlier version of this report misstated the name of the power plant in Republika Srpska that is owned by a United Kingdom-based Serbian businessman. It is Stanari power plant, not Uglevik.
- August 2, 2022
We have corrected CEELI’s name in this text.
- July 18, 2022
7/18/2022: This statement has been updated to reflect the full list of signatories.
- July 18, 2022
7/18/2022: This press release has been updated to reflect the correct number of signatories for the joint statement.
- July 5, 2022
The release has been amended to clarify that Panama, Honduras, and Guatemala have requested visas for Venezuelans since 2017.
- June 7, 2022
This release has been changed to remove an out-of-place sentence that mistakenly was added to the first paragraph in editing. We have also amended the publication to clarify that Ola Chrzanowska is a human rights expert.