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Recent Corrections
March 17, 2025: This version of the report includes revised casualty figures and an updated source attribution for the deaths of security forces in the March 6 attacks. It clarifies the role of a Telegram channel that amplified mobilization calls, the nature of military deployment orders, and the governmental source that acknowledged individual violations. It also incorporates a statement from a defense ministry official urging civilians who had mobilized to return to their areas.
March 6, 2025: This version of the dispatch has been updated to reflect the accurate name of Gaza's Coastal Municipalities Water Utility.
The text of the news release has been corrected to reflect that while certain activities of Cernet have been suspended because of the bank freeze, the organization has not been dissolved and continues to operate. The text was also changed to clarify that the 27 people charged with terrorism financing in the case were not all staff members of Cernet.
February 12, 2025: This version of the statement includes the most updated list of signatories and adds additional background details.
This dispatch has been edited to reflect that Russia's full-scale invasion will soon enter its fourth year.
A clarification has been made to this news release to reflect that there were two different executive orders on transgender rights. In addition, some Trump appointees voiced their support for human rights, but did not mention democratic values.
We have updated the news release to reflect that 48 Uyghur men are held in Thai detention: 43 held in immigration detention and five men in prison who are serving criminal sentences related to their attempted escape from an immigration detention center in 2020.
The chapter was revised to remove language stating that Epoch Times, a media outlet run by the persecuted religious group Falun Gong, closed its Hong Kong office in 2024. The Epoch Times did not close its office, but suspended its print edition in September 2024 due to “a failure to renew the lease of its print shop” and “various factors in Hong Kong.”
A correction was made to the fourth section of the Syria chapter to specify that Turkish air strikes have targeted civilian facilities across the northeast.
The photo’s caption was amended to reflect Consuelo Porras’s tenure as Attorney General.