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Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/) — a major international human rights organization that investigates and documents abuses worldwide. Their reporting serves as key evidence in this archive.
4 incidents
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
Human Rights Watch and the ACLU documented beatings, medical neglect and coercive deportations at Camp East Montana, the ICE tent camp on Fort Bliss and the largest US immigration detention facility. Three men died there within weeks, one in a death ruled a homicide. ICE's own inspection found unreported uses of force. DHS denies all of it.
Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power
Federal prosecutors charged 15 people, including a Macalester College professor, with felony conspiracy and related charges for protesting Operation Metro Surge. Defense attorneys and a constitutional law scholar call the charges overreach; similar cases nationally have a roughly 50% dismissal rate. A Human Rights Watch report released two days later concluded the operation being protested involved unlawful killings and racial profiling.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
Israel's 2026 Lebanon offensive — including white phosphorus munitions used over civilian areas — has killed over 1,000 people, wounded nearly 3,000, and displaced 700,000. Continued US arms transfers despite documented violations raise state-responsibility concerns under Common Article 1; individual criminal complicity has not been established, because no US-supplied item has been linked to a documented 2026 unlawful strike. HRW and UN experts have called for suspension of military assistance.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
Israel deployed white phosphorus over Lebanese civilian areas in 191 reported attacks across 17+ municipalities since October 2023, continuing through March 2026; US-supplied munitions were identified in the October 2023 Dhayra attack. HRW found the March 2026 Yohmor use unlawfully indiscriminate and called on states, including the US, to suspend arms transfers. US criminal complicity in the 2026 attacks is not shown.