Day 610
September 21, 2026
4 incidents
- Major Abuse of Power Press Freedom
Outlets sue; TV pool suspended
CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue Trump, chief of staff Susie Wiles, communications director Steven Cheung and Secret Service director Sean Curran. CNN is dropped from the UN trip and the other networks suspend the TV pool (CBS News).
- Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Foreign Policy & War
UN Mission finds a war crime at reasonable grounds
Report A/HRC/63/61 finds reasonable grounds to believe the US carried out the strike and that it 'amounts to the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack resulting in loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects' (paras 116, 127–128).
- Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Foreign Policy & War
UN fact-finding mission finds reasonable grounds of a war crime
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (A/HRC/63/61) finds reasonable grounds to believe the US carried out the strike, that the school building was the intended point of impact, and that the strike amounts to the war crime of making a civilian object the object of an attack.
From: Minab School Strike: US Tomahawk Cruise Missile Kills At Least 156 at a Primary School
- International Crime (Rome Statute) Extrajudicial Killing
UN expert finds reasonable grounds of crimes against humanity
UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul publishes a briefing note finding that the attacks on boats are 'serial extrajudicial killings' and that there are 'reasonable grounds to believe' they constituted crimes against humanity of murder (briefing note, paras 23–25; Al Jazeera).