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Bahrain’s Rulers Return to 2011 Repression Methods Torture in Custody and Widespread Repression Resurface in Latest Attacks on Dissent

Bahrain’s ruling family has returned to its severe repression of a decade and a half ago in the context of the United States’ ...
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Bahrain’s Rulers Return to 2011 Repression Methods, New Report Finds

Bahrain’s authorities have returned to their traditional methods of repression since the start of the U.S. war on Iran in ...
Human Rights FirstOpinion

Testimony in support of the New Jersey Voting Rights Act

RE: S282, The John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey Dear Chair Stack, Vice-Chair Singleton-Jackson, and members ...
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Why Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Institutions Remain at Risk

Last week, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) carried out searches targeting former National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) detectives now working at Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railway operator. Media ...
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Trump Revives Title 42 to Weaponize Public Health Against Immigrants

Yesterday, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) weaponized a decades-old public health authority, Title 42, to suspend the ...
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Human Rights First Condemns El Salvador’s Ongoing Arbitrary Detention of Ruth Lopez Alfaro and Demands Her Immediate Release

Human Rights First strongly condemns the arbitrary detention without trial of Ruth López Alfaro by the Government of El ...
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Seeking Asylum

Asylum is a legal status that the U.S. government can grant to people who are at risk of harm in their home countries because of who they are—because of their religion, political opinion, sexual ...