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Recent Corrections
The news release has been updated to indicate the correct year the Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence was adopted.
This text has been edited to reflect the correct contents of the draft law that the Georgian ruling party introduced to parliament.
The annotation in the fifth photo has been corrected to identify the carrier section in the field as a "rocket remnant."
This article was updated soon after publication to clarify the sequence of events between Russia and the Council of Europe.
This text has been redacted to accuractely reflect the government’s criminal investigation against some members of Memorial.
The news release has been updated to indicate the correct period of time since the previous draft law on domestic violence was withdrawn.
This release has been changed to remove an out-of-place sentence that mistakenly was added to the first paragraph in editing. We have also amended the publication to clarify that Ola Chrzanowska is a human rights expert.
We removed an earlier map with incorrect shading originally posted to this page. We have corrected the error.
Olta Xhacka is Albania's foreign minister. She was misidentified in an earlier version of this publication.
This online version was corrected to depict the correct age of Zarema Mussaeva.