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May 15, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Military Overreach

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Pentagon IG: Hegseth Dismantled Civilian Harm Safeguards During Active War (May 2026)

The Pentagon's own Inspector General found that Hegseth gutted every single legally required civilian harm mitigation program during an active war. Zero objectives met. 133 required actions incomplete. Civilian harm staff cut by over 90%. The Army's casualty-tracking database defunded. Released the same day CENTCOM admitted it had no way to investigate hospital and school strike reports.

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May 10, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Military Overreach

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire Proposal, Plans 'Very Major Attack,' Cancels at Last Minute (May 2026)

Trump rejected Iran's peace proposal, called the ceasefire 'on massive life support,' and had a 'very major attack' planned before Gulf allies talked him out of it hours before execution. Congress was not consulted. Vance publicly declared the US 'locked and loaded.' The episode reveals war-making conducted entirely at presidential whim, with no legal or democratic check.

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May 7, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Rule of Law

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Hate-Group Monitoring Operations (May 2026)

Trump's DOJ indicted the SPLC — the nation's leading hate-group monitor — on fraud and money laundering charges for using paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist organizations, a standard law enforcement and investigative journalism practice. The SPLC pleaded not guilty on May 7–8, 2026. Legal experts called the prosecution 'as unprecedented as it is irregular.' The case is the most direct attack to date on civil society organizations that document extremism.

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May 7, 2026 Updated May 9, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

U.S. Strikes on Iranian Port Cities During Active Ceasefire (May 2026)

U.S. strikes on civilian port cities (Qeshm, Bandar Abbas, Bandar Kargan) during an active ceasefire killed at least one sailor, injured ten, and Iran says hit civilian residential zones. A massive oil spill (71 sq km, ~80,000 barrels) from Kharg Island was confirmed by Copernicus satellite imagery. Iran declared the ceasefire violated and said the U.S. had 'crossed the point of no return.'

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May 4, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Military Overreach

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity

Operation Project Freedom: Unilateral Hormuz Convoy Forced Standdown After Saudi Airspace Denial (May 2026)

Trump launched a Navy operation to force ships through the Strait of Hormuz during an active ceasefire without notifying Congress. Iran attacked three US destroyers. Saudi Arabia then denied US airspace access, collapsing the operation. The 'pause for negotiations' cover story was contradicted by reporting that Saudi Arabia's airspace denial made the mission militarily impossible.

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April 28, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Rule of Law

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

DOJ Indicts James Comey Over Instagram Photo in 'Vengeance Tour' Prosecution (April 2026)

Trump's DOJ indicted former FBI Director Comey for posting an Instagram photo of seashells reading '86 47,' claiming it was a death threat. Legal experts universally called it unprecedented political prosecution. Comey faces prison time for a social media post expressing opposition to Trump's presidency. The case is part of Trump's documented 'vengeance tour' targeting political enemies.

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April 14, 2026 Rule of Law

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Immigration Judiciary Purge: 113 Judges Fired Without Due Process, Including Retaliation Against Judges Who Protected Free Speech

Over 113 immigration judges have been fired without due process since January 2025 — more firings in one year than in the entire prior history of the immigration court system. The April 2026 firing of two judges specifically because they dismissed deportation cases against pro-Palestinian activists represents direct judicial retaliation: punishing judges for ruling against the administration, fundamentally corrupting the independence of courts adjudicating life-and-death immigration cases.

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April 13, 2026 Updated May 9, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

U.S. Naval Blockade of Iranian Ports

The United States imposed a full naval blockade on all Iranian ports after peace talks in Islamabad collapsed, threatening to destroy any vessel approaching. The blockade — the first U.S. naval blockade since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — constitutes an act of war under international law, threatens 25% of global seaborne oil, and amounts to siege warfare against Iran's 88 million civilians.

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April 8, 2026 Complicity in Genocide

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

U.S. Complicity in Israel's Operation Eternal Darkness: April 8 Lebanon Massacre

Israel launched Operation Eternal Darkness on April 8, 2026 — 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across Lebanon using 50 jets and ~160 munitions, killing 357 and injuring 1,223. The US remained silent, continued arms supply, and provided diplomatic cover.

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April 6, 2026 Press Freedom

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Trump Threatens to Jail Journalists Who Reported on Iran Rescue Mission

Trump's threat to jail journalists for reporting on a military rescue mission during the Iran war extends the administration's documented pattern of using national security claims to suppress press freedom and criminalize journalism.

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April 5, 2026 Updated April 7, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Trump Issues Ultimatum: 'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight' Unless Iran Capitulates

Trump's explicit threats to destroy all civilian infrastructure in Iran — every bridge, every power plant — with the stated goal of ensuring Iran 'could literally never rebuild as a nation again' constitute textbook threats of indiscriminate attack, a war crime under the Rome Statute and customary IHL.

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April 3, 2026 Updated April 6, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation

F-15E Shot Down Over Iran: Massive Rescue Operation Raises Escalation and Press Freedom Concerns

The shootdown of a US F-15E over Iran and the massive rescue operation that followed document the intensity and cost of the 2026 Iran war. The rescue itself was a legitimate military operation, but Trump's threat to jail journalists who covered it raises serious press freedom concerns, and the scale of the operation — including abandoned US aircraft inside Iran — illustrates the escalatory trajectory of the conflict.

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April 2, 2026 Updated April 7, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

U.S. Double-Tap Strike Destroys Iran's B1 Bridge, Killing Civilians on Nowruz Holiday

US forces destroyed Iran's landmark B1 bridge near Karaj in a double-tap strike during Nowruz holiday celebrations, killing 8 civilians and wounding 95. The bridge — 176 meters tall and 1,050 meters long — was under construction and had never been used for any military purpose. The strike marked the first direct hit on major civilian infrastructure following Trump's 'Stone Ages' threats.

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April 1, 2026 Updated April 7, 2026 Deportation & Immigration

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Phase II Mass Deportation: Expansion to Workplace Raids and 92,000-Bed Warehouse Detention System

The administration moved toward a second phase of mass deportation operations, shifting from criminal-focused enforcement to broad workplace raids, backed by a $170 billion budget, an expanding warehouse detention infrastructure, and a stated goal of removing one million people in 2026.

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March 24, 2026 Updated April 5, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Repeated Strikes Near Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Risk Radioactive Catastrophe

Repeated strikes near Bushehr nuclear power plant violate Additional Protocol I Article 56's specific protection of nuclear electrical generating stations. Even without a radiation release, strikes on or near an active nuclear reactor in a city of 250,000 constitute reckless endangerment of the civilian population and violate the prohibition on disproportionate attacks under Rome Statute Article 8(2)(b)(iv).

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March 14, 2026 Updated March 25, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Defense Secretary Hegseth Declares 'No Quarter, No Mercy' for Iran

The US Defense Secretary's public declaration that no quarter would be given to Iran constitutes a textbook war crime under Rome Statute Article 8(2)(b)(xii), which criminalizes 'declaring that no quarter will be given.' This prohibition is among the oldest in the laws of war.

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March 13, 2026 Updated May 9, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

U.S. Strikes on Iran's Kharg Island Oil Export Hub

U.S. military strikes on Kharg Island — Iran's primary oil export facility handling 90% of crude exports — constitute attacks on critical civilian economic infrastructure. Combined with explicit threats to destroy the entire island, these strikes raise serious questions under the proportionality and distinction principles of international humanitarian law.

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March 10, 2026 Updated March 25, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Destruction of Iranian UNESCO World Heritage Sites in US-Israeli Airstrikes

US and Israeli strikes have damaged UNESCO World Heritage Sites and over 100 cultural heritage sites across Iran, including Golestan Palace, Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Square complex, the 8th-century Jameh Mosque, and prehistoric sites dating to 63,000 BC. The destruction of cultural heritage during armed conflict is prohibited under the 1954 Hague Convention and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute.

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March 5, 2026 Updated March 31, 2026 Rule of Law

Major Abuse of Power

Trump Fires DHS Secretary Noem After Minneapolis ICE Killings; Mullin Confirmed as Replacement

Trump fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem citing 'leadership failures' — not accountability for two civilians killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed as replacement. Noem was reshuffled to a diplomatic title, not held responsible for the extrajudicial killings under her watch.

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March 4, 2026 Updated March 25, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Sinking of IRIS Dena: USS Charlotte Torpedoes Iranian Frigate Off Sri Lanka

A US submarine torpedoed an Iranian frigate returning from a peaceful international naval event, killing 87 sailors. The failure to rescue shipwrecked sailors violates the Second Geneva Convention's obligation to search for and collect the shipwrecked after an engagement.

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March 4, 2026 Updated May 9, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Global Energy and Food Security Catastrophe

The Iran war triggered closure of the world's most critical energy chokepoint, causing the largest supply disruption since the 1970s. Despite a nominal ceasefire, the US and Iran exchanged fire in the strait on May 7, 2026. The US struck civilian port cities Qeshm and Bandar Abbas; a cargo vessel was hit, killing one sailor. A massive oil spill (71 sq km, ~80,000 barrels) from Kharg Island confirmed by Copernicus satellite imagery. Iran declared the ceasefire violated; the strait remains effectively closed.

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March 2, 2026 Updated March 25, 2026 Complicity in Genocide

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

2026 Lebanon War — US Weapons Complicity in Mass Civilian Casualties and White Phosphorus Attacks

Israel's 2026 Lebanon offensive — conducted with US-supplied weapons including white phosphorus munitions used over civilian areas — has killed over 1,000 people, wounded nearly 3,000, and displaced 700,000. The United States bears complicity through continued arms transfers despite documented violations. HRW and UN experts have called for suspension of military assistance.

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February 28, 2026 Updated April 21, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Trump Threats to Obliterate Iran's Civilian Power Infrastructure

Trump's explicit threat to destroy Iran's civilian power infrastructure constitutes a per se violation of international humanitarian law. The threats escalated from 'obliterate' to a promise of 'complete demolition' of all civilian infrastructure. Combined with 3,400+ killed including 1,600+ civilians, this represents a confirmed war crime classification.

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February 28, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Military Overreach

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Iran War: Crime of Aggression — War Launched Without Congressional Authorization

The United States launched a major war against Iran without congressional authorization, without a UN Security Council mandate, and while diplomatic channels remained open. Legal experts, the Brennan Center, and international law scholars have characterized the strikes as unconstitutional and as potentially meeting the definition of a crime of aggression — what the Nuremberg Tribunal called 'the supreme international crime.'

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February 28, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Attacks on Iranian Healthcare Facilities: WHO Verifies 18 Strikes on Hospitals and Medical Infrastructure

A sustained pattern of strikes on Iranian hospitals, ambulances, and medical infrastructure has killed healthcare workers and forced the evacuation of six hospitals. The WHO verified 18 attacks on health sites through mid-March 2026, documenting systematic damage to protected medical facilities including Gandhi Hospital and Iranian Red Crescent centers. The pattern continued through the April 7 ceasefire, and HRW documented further strikes through the ceasefire period in its April 2026 report.

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February 28, 2026 Updated May 20, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Minab School Strike: US Tomahawk Cruise Missile Kills 175-180 Schoolgirls

A Tomahawk cruise missile struck a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing up to 180 schoolchildren in one of the deadliest single incidents of civilian harm in the 2026 Iran war. Investigations by the New York Times, CBC, NPR, and BBC Verify confirmed US responsibility.

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February 6, 2026 Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

America First Arms Transfer Strategy: Human Rights Safeguards Removed From Weapons Exports

An executive order stripped human rights safeguards from the US arms transfer framework, replacing decades of bipartisan policy with a commerce-first approach. The subsequent emergency bypass of congressional review for $23+ billion in Gulf arms sales demonstrated the immediate consequences of removing these guardrails.

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February 6, 2026 Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Pentagon Signs $210M+ Deal to Purchase Cluster Munitions From Israel

The US contracted with an Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer for banned cluster munitions at industrial scale, reversing decades of declining reliance on these weapons and funding an Israeli weapons program while cluster munitions continue to kill and maim civilians worldwide.

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February 5, 2026 Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

New START Treaty Expires: First Time Since 1970s With No Nuclear Arms Control

The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty ends over five decades of binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. No replacement is under negotiation. The loss of verification mechanisms, data exchange, and warhead caps risks an unconstrained nuclear arms race at a time of peak geopolitical tension.

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January 24, 2026 Updated May 9, 2026 Extrajudicial Killing

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

Federal Agents Kill ICU Nurse Alex Pretti During Minneapolis Immigration Protest

A second American citizen killed by federal agents during Minneapolis immigration enforcement protests. The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti — both unarmed U.S. citizens — during a single enforcement operation constituted a pattern of excessive force that prompted bipartisan calls for accountability.

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January 15, 2026 Updated February 20, 2026 Deportation to Torture

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

Secret Cameroon Deportation Agreement and Torture of Deportees

The US secretly deported 17 people from 9 African countries to Cameroon under a covert agreement. Deportees were immediately beaten by gendarmes, arbitrarily detained, and subjected to torture. Journalists attempting to document conditions were detained. HRW documented systematic abuses including enforced disappearances and rape.

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January 7, 2026 Updated May 9, 2026 Extrajudicial Killing

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

ICE Agent Kills Renee Good, American Mother of Three, in Minneapolis

An ICE agent shot and killed an American woman during an immigration raid in Minneapolis. Video evidence contradicted the government's claim of self-defense. The administration used the killing to threaten the Insurrection Act and escalate immigration enforcement.

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January 3, 2026 Updated March 25, 2026 Military Overreach

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Operation Absolute Resolve: Unilateral US Military Intervention in Venezuela

The United States launched a unilateral military intervention in Venezuela, bombing infrastructure and capturing the sitting head of state, without Congressional authorization, UN Security Council mandate, or self-defense justification. International legal experts, the UN Secretary-General, and governments worldwide condemned the operation as a violation of the UN Charter.

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December 25, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Military Overreach

Serious Rights Violation

First-Ever US Airstrikes in Nigeria: Christmas Day Tomahawk Strikes on Sokoto

The US unilaterally struck a sovereign African nation for the first time, firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at Sokoto State. Locals disputed the ISIS narrative, unexploded ordnance fell in villages, and the legal basis for striking a non-hostile nation's territory without AUMF authority remains deeply contested.

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December 19, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Operation Hawkeye Strike: Massive US Bombing Campaign in Syria

A large-scale US retaliatory bombing campaign in Syria following the deaths of three Americans near Palmyra. The scale of the operation — hundreds of munitions across dozens of targets in populated desert regions — raises serious questions about proportionality and civilian protection under international humanitarian law.

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December 15, 2025 Updated January 3, 2026 Military Overreach

Serious Rights Violation

Naval Blockade of Venezuelan Oil Exports

A naval blockade of Venezuelan oil exports drew condemnation from UN experts as a violation of fundamental international law, with legal analysts characterizing it as an act of war imposed without Congressional authorization.

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December 2, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Hegseth Reverses US Landmine Ban, Rescinds $5B+ Humanitarian Demining Program

The Trump administration reversed decades of bipartisan progress toward eliminating antipersonnel landmines by authorizing their global use and simultaneously dismantling the US humanitarian demining program that had been the world's largest mine-clearing effort.

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November 24, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Deportation to Torture

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Secretive $7.5 Million Deal Deports 29 People to Equatorial Guinea's Authoritarian Regime

A secret agreement with one of the world's most repressive regimes has stranded 29 deportees in Equatorial Guinea, where they face indefinite detention without counsel or forced deportation to the countries they fled. The $7.5 million deal is part of a broader $40 million third-country deportation program targeting migrants from countries that will not accept their return.

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November 19, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Corruption & Self-Dealing

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

Epstein Files: DOJ Withholds Evidence, UN Experts Warn of Crimes Against Humanity

After signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Trump administration's DOJ missed legal deadlines, secretly re-redacted files, and withheld documents containing allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor — prompting a UN finding that the crimes described may amount to crimes against humanity, bipartisan congressional subpoenas of AG Bondi, and calls for a special counsel over alleged perjury.

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November 1, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Deportation & Immigration

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Immigration Rocket Dockets: Mass Fast-Tracked Hearings and In Absentia Removal Orders

An accelerated immigration court system that fast-tracks cases through mass remote hearings, with two-thirds of all Somali cases nationwide rescheduled on short notice. The process systematically deprives respondents of due process, with 80% of completed rocket docket cases historically resulting in in absentia removal orders.

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October 30, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Trump Orders Pentagon to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing, Breaking 33-Year Moratorium

Trump directed the Pentagon to match other nations' nuclear testing programs, breaking a moratorium that has held since 1992 and threatening to collapse the global norm against nuclear testing that has been maintained for over three decades.

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September 2, 2025 Updated March 25, 2026 Extrajudicial Killing

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Operation Southern Spear: Lethal Drone Strikes on Caribbean and Pacific Drug Boats

A sustained campaign of Hellfire missile strikes on suspected drug boats has killed at least 95 people without due process, public evidence of drug trafficking, or identification of the dead. Legal experts widely classify these as extrajudicial killings and crimes against humanity.

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September 1, 2025 Updated March 25, 2026 Deportation to Torture

War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Torture and Enforced Disappearances at 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Krome Detention Centers

Florida immigration detention centers are sites of documented torture including a punitive cage device, prolonged solitary confinement, unsanitary conditions, and enforced disappearances facilitated by the absence of any tracking system. At least six people died in Florida ICE facilities since October 2024.

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August 31, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Deportation & Immigration

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

Midnight Deportation of 76 Guatemalan Children: Labor Day Weekend Mass Removal Attempt

The administration attempted a mass deportation of unaccompanied minor children in the middle of the night during a holiday weekend, circumventing legal protections that require children to appear before an immigration judge. A federal judge halted the operation after being awakened at 2:35 AM, but one plane had already taken off before turning around.

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August 25, 2025 Updated March 25, 2026 Press Freedom

Major Abuse of Power Ongoing

FCC Broadcast License Threats and Government Coercion of Media

A campaign of government coercion against media through broadcast license threats from the president and FCC chair, forced cancellation of a television show, pressure to remove apps, and demands that platforms suppress immigration-related content.

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August 15, 2025 Updated April 5, 2026 Federal Dismantlement

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

DOGE Gutted State Department Energy Bureau Months Before Iran War

DOGE's elimination of the State Department's energy diplomacy bureau months before the Iran war left the U.S. without key personnel who monitored energy chokepoints, oil markets, and Iranian energy infrastructure — capabilities now desperately needed during a conflict centered on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's oil economy.

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July 10, 2025 Updated August 8, 2025 Foreign Policy & War

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Sanctions Against UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine

The United States sanctioned a UN human rights investigator for performing the duties of her mandate, in what UN experts described as an unprecedented threat to the international human rights system.

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July 8, 2025 Updated March 25, 2026 Deportation & Immigration

Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

Systematic Elimination of Bond Hearings and Indefinite Immigration Detention

An ICE directive and BIA precedential decision eliminated bond hearings for millions of immigrants, creating a system of indefinite detention without judicial review. 71.7% of the 57,861 ICE detainees had no criminal convictions.

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June 10, 2025 Updated March 25, 2026 Civil Rights

Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Federal Protest Crackdowns: ICE Killing of Renee Good, Insurrection Act Threats, and Criminalization of Dissent

A pattern of militarized response to protests including the ICE killing of an American mother, Insurrection Act threats, 3,000-agent deployments, expanded federal police powers, and a presidential memorandum classifying political opposition as domestic terrorism.

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June 7, 2025 Updated March 26, 2026 Military Overreach

Serious Rights Violation

Illegal National Guard Deployments to Los Angeles and Attempted Deployment to Chicago

The administration deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles without the governor's consent, and attempted to send Texas National Guard troops to Chicago. Federal courts ruled both deployments illegal, with the Supreme Court finding no source of authority for the Illinois deployment.

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