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Recent Corrections

  • Thailand: Don’t Send Uyghurs to China

    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.

  • Syria

    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. 

  • Guatemala: Attorney General Pursues Political Prosecutions

    The photo’s caption was amended to reflect Consuelo Porras’s tenure as Attorney General.

  • Morocco and Western Sahara

    A correction was made to the Freedom of Speech section of the Morocco and Western Sahara Chapter to specify that Fouad Abdelmoumni was released on November 1, 2024. 

  • Iran: Detained Activists Denied Medical Care

    This news release was adjusted to reflect the correct spelling of Raheleh Rahemi-Pour's and Mahvash Sabet's names. 

  • What Can the Lebanese Government Do to Stop War Crimes?

    November 14, 2024: This version of the dispatch includes the correct number of civilians killed in northern Israel and the Occupied Golan Heights.

  • EU: Raise Human Rights Crisis in Azerbaijan during COP29

    The statement was updated to reflect the accurate spelling of Javidan Aghayev's name. 

  • 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.”