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Recent Corrections
9/27/2022: this press release was updated to more accurately reflect the claims made by the Algerian authorities about Bouhafs in their October 7, 2021, letter to UN experts.
The article indicated that Gotabaya Rajapaksa was still outside of Sri Lanka. He in fact returned to the country on September 3.
The English version of this piece misstated the name of the interviewee, and included discrepancies with the original French version of the interview. The piece also misstated the type of measure adopted in 2019. The government’s measure is an order (arrêté), and not a law.
The piece originally mischaracterized the type of measures in Niger. The government of Niger repealed an exclusionary decision (décision), not a law, in 2019.
An earlier version of this report misstated the name of the power plant in Republika Srpska that is owned by a United Kingdom-based Serbian businessman. It is Stanari power plant, not Uglevik.
We have corrected CEELI’s name in this text.
May 13, 2024: This report was amended on page 16 to indicate that Nasser Ziane and Nabil Nouaydi had been arrested in 2020.
7/18/2022: This statement has been updated to reflect the full list of signatories.
7/18/2022: This press release has been updated to reflect the correct number of signatories for the joint statement.
March 1, 2024: This news release has been updated to reflect new information indicating that Yusuf Zahab, an Australian citizen who was forced to live under the Islamic State (ISIS) as a child, is alive and detained in a prison in northeast Syria.