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Recent Corrections

  • Bangladesh: Election Abuses Need Independent Probe

    This press release has been corrected to reflect that the Awami League led Grand Alliance won 96 percent of contested parliament seats. According to the government, the ruling Awami League party alone won 258 of the 300 seats, that is 86 percent. 

  • Lebanon: Deportation Threat for Sudan Refugees

    November 26, 2018: A previous version of this joint release incorrectly stated that the number of non-Syrian refugees deported by General Security during 2018 was eight. The actual number of non-Syrian refugees deported by General Security during 2018 is seven.

  • For Iran’s Activists, Prison’s Just the Start

    This dispatch has been updated to correct Arash Sadeghi’s age. 

  • Lebanon: No Action to Enforce New Waste Law

    18 October 2018: An earlier version of this press release misspelled the name of the Qabrikha Deputy Mayor. The current version has been updated with the correct spelling.

  • Iran: Targeting of Dual Citizens, Foreigners

    8/2/2021: This version of the press release has been updated to clarify that Fars News Agency is close to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

  • Yemen: Coalition Bus Bombing Apparent War Crime

    This news release has been corrected to ammend the number of adults killed and wounded in the market for whom Human Rights Watch had documented full identifying information. The number of people who were killed and whose information we documented remains the same, at 34.

  • Iran: Environmentalists Face Arbitrary Detention

    An earlier version of this news release misspelled the names of Abdolreza Kouhpayeh and Payam Derafshan.

  • White Helmets Evacuation Shows What Can Be Accomplished in Syria

    An earlier version of this article stated that 422 members of the White Helmets were evacuated. It has been updated to reflect that this number includes both White Helmets and their relatives. 

  • Lebanon: Same-Sex Relations Not Illegal

    An earlier version of this news release did not name the Beirut-based rights group, Legal Agenda. 

  • Pakistan: Ensure Ahmadi Voting Rights

    On June 28, 2018, Human Rights Watch published a press release entitled, “Pakistan: Ensure Ahmadi Voting Rights” (https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/28/pakistan-ensure-ahmadi-voting-rights). We regret that due to an editing error the press release reproduced passages without attribution in the law review article by Amjad Mahmood Khan, entitled, “Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan: An Analysis Under International Law and International Relations,” published in the Harvard Human Rights Journal in 2003. Human Rights Watch cited this article in its 2005 report, “Breach of Faith: Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Bangladesh,” but when the passage was reproduced for the June 28 press release the footnote was not included.