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Recent Corrections
The recommendations to this report were edited on May 10, 2018 to correct the name of a Jordanian government agency.
8/30/21: Updates were made to the Background section of this report and to the Annex to reflect amendments to Articles 356 and 358 of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) penal code.
Medan, Indonesia's third largest city, is located in North Sumatra. An earlier version of this article misstated its location.
This news release has been update to correct the date authorities arrested Azam Jangravi.
The satellite imagery demonstrating ongoing digging activity at the Bardiya mass grave site has been updated to reflect the correct dates of September 3 and 29.
Three child offenders were executed in Iran in January 2018. An earlier version of the headline was unclear about the age of the individuals when they were executed.
An earlier version of this piece only named Pidgeon Pagonis as the leader of a protest in frohnt of the Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. An updated version adds Lynell Stephani Long and Sean Saifa Wall to the list of protest organizers.
March 5, 2018: An earlier version of this dispatch listed an "elimination of 'retroactive laws'" as one demand expressed during a planned demonstration on January 27, 2018. This has been corrected to "elimination of laws".
An earlier version of this dispatch stated that the Polish president has not yet signed the new law. In fact, he signed the law on January 29, 2017. The dispatch has been updated to reflect this.
Correction: An earlier version of this news release incorrectly stated that Qatar had unblocked local access to the Doha News website based on screenshots showing that the site was accessible. However, Doha News has confirmed that the site remains blocked. The new release has been updated to reflect this.