Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Rights

The Lawless Evil of Denying Due Process (techdirt.com)
The U.S. government just demonstrated exactly why due process matters. In what should be a shocking admission, the Trump administration revealed in court that it had made a bit of an oopsie (they call it an “administrative error”) — one that resulted in trafficking a Maryland father with protected legal status to a Salvadoran prison. Their response to this horrific mistake? Not contrition or attempts to fix it, but rather an argument that U.S.
US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back (independent.co.uk)
The Trump administration accidentally sent a Salvadorian immigrant to a notorious Salvadorian prison and says it can’t do anything to get him back.
'You're His Property': How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm (nytimes.com)
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
Iran using drones and apps to enforce women's dress code (bbc.com)
Iran is using drones and intrusive digital technology to crush dissent, especially among women who refuse to obey the Islamic republic's strict dress code, the United Nations has said.
Masked homeland security abducting foreign graduate student from Tufts (apnews.com)
A Turkish national who is a doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by federal agents without explanation, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
RSF condemns China state-backed smear campaign against French journalists (rsf.org)
Two French journalists have been targeted by a massive, ongoing cyber harassment campaign amplified by Chinese state propaganda outlets for their participation in a report on the investigative programme Cash Investigation, aired on the public television channel France 2. The episode revealed that Decathlon, a French outdoor goods and sportswear company, heavily subcontracts to a Chinese company accused by the US Congress and the United Nations of using Uyghur forced labour.
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced (time.com)
On the night of Saturday, March 15, three planes touched down in El Salvador, carrying 261 men deported from the United States.
US 'deletes evidence' of Russia's kidnap of Ukrainian children (independent.co.uk)
An international effort to trace and rescue tens of thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia and prosecute those responsible has been crippled by the US state department’s deletion of evidence.
A Billion-Dollar ICE Contractor Pays Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work (propublica.org)
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
Iran is using drones and apps to catch women who aren't wearing hijabs (cnn.com)
Is It Constitutional to Deport Immigrants for Political Speech? (reason.com)
Immigrant students who express sympathy for Hamas will have their visas and green cards revoked so that deportation proceedings may be brought against them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted to X on Monday.
Mahmoud Khalil's treatment should not happen in a democracy (theguardian.com)
Forced disappearance, kidnapping, political imprisonment – take your pick. These terms all describe what has happened with the Trump administration’s first arrest for thought crimes, something that should never happen in a democracy.
Former Philippine president Duterte flown to the ICC, crimes against humanity (bbc.com)
A plane carrying the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has left Manila, hours after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his deadly "war on drugs".
Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised' (theguardian.com)
Digital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade.
Decathlon's Chinese subcontractor is suspected of using forced Uyghur labor [video] (youtube.com)
Myanmar scam centres: Thousands who have been freed are now stuck in camps (bbc.com)
"I swear to God I need help," said the man quietly on the other end of the line.
The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck (nytimes.com)
Three years ago, a video blogger stumbled on a shack in a tiny village in rural China.
List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court (wikipedia.org)
The list of people who have been indicted in the International Criminal Court includes all individuals who have been indicted on any counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aggression, or contempt of court in the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to the Rome Statute.
Thailand Deports Uyghurs to China, Activists Say (nytimes.com)
Thailand on Thursday deported some 40 Uyghur asylum seekers back to China, according to rights groups, ignoring warnings from activists and foreign governments that the men would possibly face torture and long-term imprisonment upon their return.
Mexico keeps finding clandestine graves (elpais.com)
Immersed in a crisis of violence that seems to have no end, Mexico is adding up dozens of deaths and disappearances every day, as well as shootouts, exploding mines, drones that drop bombs... And then there are the mass graves, clandestine burials that have numbered in the thousands in recent years.
UN judge forced woman to work as slave, court told (bbc.com)
A United Nations judge deceived a young woman into coming to the UK to work as her slave while she studied at the University of Oxford, a court has heard.
Analysis: America's gulag': Trump's Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists (theguardian.com)
It has been denounced as “America’s gulag”: a secretive, abuse-ridden Caribbean prison camp for terror suspects that Donald Rumsfeld once said contained “the worst of the worst”.
Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps (oregoncapitalchronicle.com)
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensifies its efforts to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants throughout the country, concern is rising among Indigenous communities residing in urban areas about reports of Indigenous people being detained in the Valley.
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Taliban leaders for 'persecuting Afghan women' (bbc.com)
The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he will seek arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Taliban government in Afghanistan over the persecution of women and girls.
Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location (dot.studio)
Under Whose Command, a new platform for command chain analysis in Myanmar, is the culmination of a year–long collaboration between DOT • STUDIO (our agency) and Tony Wilson and Tom Longley at Security Force Monitor (SFM) — an NGO situated at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School.
Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet (proton.me)
This year’s Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser was a record-breaking success, generating over $1 million to directly support organizations fighting for privacy, freedom of expression, and human rights worldwide.
The stories of survivors of the Rwandan Genocide (positivenewsus.org)
“Being welcomed by the man I wronged gives me hope.”
Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia (amnesty.org)
This report documents how Serbian authorities have deployed surveillance technology and digital repression tactics as instruments of wider state control and repression directed against civil society.
Elderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit (theguardian.com)
A 77-year-old environmental activist will spend Christmas in prison despite having been released on an electronic tag, because the authorities cannot find an electronic device small enough to fit her wrists.
Qualcomm DSP Driver – How Serbian authorities deployed surveillance technology (circl.lu)
Amnesty International identified how Serbian authorities used Cellebrite to exploit a zero-day vulnerability (a software flaw which is not known to the original software developer and for which a software fix is not available) in Android devices to gain privileged access to an environmental activist’s phone.