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October 23, 2025 Report

United States: Federal Agents Use Excessive Force in Illinois

Protesters, Journalists, Medics Targeted Outside Immigration Detention Facility

A federal immigration enforcement agent sprays Rev. David Black, of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, as he and other protesters demonstrate outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, September 19, 2025.

October 23, 2025 Report

Afghanistan: Taliban Trample Media Freedom

Journalists Face Arrest, Torture; Journalists in Exile at Risk of Forced Return

Officials and Journalists attend a Taliban press conference at the Government Media and Information Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 12, 2025.

September 29, 2025 Report

Tanzania: Deepening Repression Threatens Elections

Stop Wrongful Arrests, Media Crackdown; Ensure All Parties Can Fairly Participate

September 22, 2025 Report

Venezuela: Political Prisoners Cut Off from the World

Incommunicado Detention; Political Persecution

Activists and relatives of prisoners release balloons calling for the freedom of political prisoners, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 14, 2025.

September 17, 2025 Report

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Forced Displacement is a War Crime; Homes Razed, Syrians Detained and Unlawfully Transferred to Israel

Israeli soldiers patrol in the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab, December 20, 2024.

September 15, 2025 Report

Burkina Faso: Islamist Armed Groups Massacre Civilians

Adopt Measures to Improve Protection; AU Should Press for Accountability

Screenshot of Ousmane Dicko, brother of Jafar Dicko, JNIM leader in Burkina Faso.

September 10, 2025 Report

Niger: Islamist Armed Group Executes Civilians, Burns Homes

Despite Warnings of Attacks, Army Repeatedly Fails to Protect Villagers

September 4, 2025 Report

Iran: Missile Strikes on Israeli Civilians Likely War Crimes

Large Munitions During 12-Day Conflict Hit Far from Military Targets

Damage caused by an Iranian missile strike that killed nine civilians, including three children, in the Israeli city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, on June 15, 2025. Photo taken on July 1, 2025.

September 2, 2025 Report

Japan: Cambodian Authorities Harass Exiled Dissidents

Tokyo Should Denounce Phnom Penh’s ‘Transnational Repression’

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet attend a news conference after a bilateral talk at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo, May 30, 2025.

August 20, 2025 Report

DR Congo: M23 Mass Killings Near Virunga National Park

Rwanda-Backed Armed Group Executes Over 140 Civilians in 14 Villages, Farming Areas

Aerial photo of the Rutshuru River in the DRC.

August 18, 2025 Report

US: Excessive Force Against LA Protesters

Senior Law Enforcement Officials Should Face Consequences for Abusive Response

Los Angeles Police Department officers shoot kinetic impact projectiles at protesters outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025. © 2025 Apu Gomes/Getty Images

August 14, 2025 Report

Iran: Detainees Ill-Treated and Disappeared After Israeli Evin Prison Attack

Disclose Whereabouts of Forcibly ‘Disappeared;’ Free those Held Unjustly

August 14, 2025 Report

Iran: Israeli Attack on Evin Prison an Apparent War Crime

Scores of Civilians Killed in Strikes on Tehran Facility Holding Political Prisoners

An external view of the destruction of buildings in Evin prison's northern premises after the Israeli strikes on June 23, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Photo taken on July 1, 2025.

August 7, 2025 Report

Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril

Deadly Attacks on Schools-Turned-Shelters Show Vulnerability of Displaced People

Al-Zeitoun C school in Gaza City, which an Israeli airstrike hit on September 21, 2024, killing at least 34 displaced Palestinians, including at least 21 children, who were sheltering there.

August 6, 2025 Report

Lebanon: Israeli Forces Occupied, Vandalized Schools

Apparent War Crimes Jeopardize Right to Education

Damage to a classroom in Naqqoura Intermediate Public School, Lebanon, January 31, 2025.

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