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Recent Corrections

  • Your Body on the Ballot

    We corrected a date in this article. The ProPublica report on the deaths of two women due to Georgia’s abortion ban was published last month. Their deaths (still due to the ban) happened earlier. 

  • Israel/Palestine: A Year of Horror

    10/8/2024: This piece has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of Ahiad Ben Yitzchak's name.


     

  • Lebanon Already Aflame, Atrocities May Follow

    A previous version misidentified the Israeli minister who said Lebanon would be “annihilated.”

  • Texas National Guard Firing Pepper Spray Projectiles at Migrants

    On October 10, a reporter for the Portuguese media outlet Sábado shared footage with Human Rights Watch of one portion of this incident. The footage indicates two projectiles hit the ground near the migrant and that the migrant was already on the ground when the rounds were fired. 

  • China: Free Taiwanese Political Activist

    The news release was corrected to clarify that the reasons for Fu Cha's arrest should be attributed to Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.  

  • Iran: Arrests of Family Members of Protesters

    We have corrected this news release to adjust that the Special Court for Minors in Razavi Khorasan province issued a six-month prison sentence for Faramarz Abil Barahoui.

  • Mexico: Proposed Constitutional Changes Threaten Rights

    This news release was corrected to reflect that the proposed constitutional changes are contained in four bills and clarify the date legislators took office. Some translation mistakes in the Spanish version were also corrected.

  • Sudan: Warring Parties Execute Detainees, Mutilate Bodies

    We have corrected the online version of this report to indicate that we documented three cases of SAF soldiers mutilating bodies of apparent RSF fighters.

  • China: UN Needs to Address Crimes Against Humanity

    This news release has been updated to correct the date of the release of the United Nations human rights office's report on Xinjiang, which was on August 31, 2022.

  • Iran: Alarming Surge in Executions

     This news release was adjusted to correct the spelling of Isa Eidmohammadi’s name.