Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Rights

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children with Cancer (rollingstone.com)
As part of Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown, three U.S. citizen children were deported with their mothers by the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday morning. One of the children was undergoing cancer treatment and one of the mothers is pregnant.
Politics, Immigration, Healthcare, Human Rights
4 points by mandmandam 32 minutes ago | 0 comments
In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource (arstechnica.com)
Ironically, our present AI age has shone a bright spotlight on the immense value of human creativity as breakthroughs in technology threaten to undermine it.
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Human Rights, Technology
22 points by wizardforhire 21 hours ago | 4 comments
How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent (citizenlab.ca)
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020.
Human Rights, Thailand, Censorship, Social Media, Politics
207 points by gnabgib 5 days ago | 182 comments
Law firms, universities and now civil society groups targets for punitive action (apnews.com)
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return
Politics, Law, Civil Liberties, Human Rights
8 points by petethomas 8 days ago | 0 comments
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (text.npr.org)
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
Politics, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Human Rights, United States
38 points by thowaway7564902 9 days ago | 4 comments
State Terror (snyder.substack.com)
Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
Politics, Human Rights, Justice System
7 points by tastyface 10 days ago | 0 comments
State Terror (snyder.substack.com)
Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
Politics, Human Rights, Law, Government
23 points by NotInOurNames 11 days ago | 2 comments
Trump and Bukele Bond over Human Rights Abuses in Oval Office Meeting (rollingstone.com)
President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process.
Politics, Human Rights, El Salvador, United States
20 points by josefresco 11 days ago | 0 comments
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid: Trump's Gulag Archipelago (nytimes.com)
Of all the lawless acts by the Trump administration in its first two and a half months, none are more frightening than its dumping of human beings who have not had their day in court into an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador — and then contending that no federal court has the authority to right these brazen wrongs.
Politics, Law, Immigration, Human Rights
16 points by mitchbob 17 days ago | 0 comments
Russian Authorities Returned Device with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed (citizenlab.ca)
This joint investigation with First Department, a legal assistance organization, found spyware covertly implanted on a phone returned to a Russian programmer accused of sending money to Ukraine after he was released from custody.
Cybersecurity, Surveillance, Russia, Human Rights
8 points by janandonly 17 days ago | 0 comments
Trump's Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights (propublica.org)
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.
Politics, Immigration, Human Rights, Government Oversight
11 points by hn_acker 18 days ago | 0 comments
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans (rollingstone.com)
On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs.
El Salvador, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Politics, Human Rights
327 points by Avshalom 21 days ago | 193 comments
ICE Air: What It's Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant (propublica.org)
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
Immigration, Aviation, Labor, Human Rights
10 points by Anon84 23 days ago | 0 comments
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived (nytimes.com)
“It’s the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction. In the video, which Khalil’s wife recorded, she asks for the names of the men in plainclothes who handcuffed her husband.
Police Brutality, Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Journalism
40 points by tastyface 23 days ago | 7 comments
In Alien Enemies Case, Many with Open Asylum Claims Allegedly Removed (lawfaremedia.org)
The Trump administration is wrongfully removing individuals with open asylum cases to an El Salvador mega-prison for terrorists.
Immigration, Law, Human Rights, Politics, Trump Administration
6 points by hn_acker 24 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Politics, Law, Human Rights
11 points by hn_acker 25 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Immigration, International Relations, Government, Legal Issues, Human Rights
224 points by croes 25 days ago | 146 comments
'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.
Prison Labor, Corruption, Mississippi, Law Enforcement, Human Rights
34 points by whack 29 days ago | 5 comments
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.
Iran, Surveillance, Women's Rights, Technology, Human Rights
38 points by gnabgib 30 days ago | 6 comments
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.
Immigration, Law Enforcement, Higher Education, Human Rights, International Relations
152 points by pmags 30 days ago | 26 comments
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.
Journalism, China, Human Rights, Censorship, France
6 points by suraci 31 days ago | 9 comments
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.
Venezuela, El Salvador, Immigration, Deportation, Human Rights
10 points by perihelions 34 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Ukraine, Russia, International Relations, War Crimes, Human Rights
27 points by croes 37 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Immigration, Labor Rights, Human Rights, Law, Business
17 points by hn_acker 37 days ago | 4 comments
Iran is using drones and apps to catch women who aren't wearing hijabs (cnn.com)
Iran, Technology, Surveillance, Women's Rights, Human Rights
13 points by zfg 42 days ago | 6 comments
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.
Politics, Law, Immigration, Human Rights
16 points by clcaev 45 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Politics, Human Rights, Democracy, Law
11 points by n1b0m 46 days ago | 16 comments
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".
International Law, Philippines, Human Rights, Politics
14 points by chaoskanzlerin 46 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Internet Shutdowns, Africa, Censorship, Human Rights, Politics
289 points by adrian_mrd 47 days ago | 259 comments
Decathlon's Chinese subcontractor is suspected of using forced Uyghur labor [video] (youtube.com)
Human Rights, China, Labor, Supply Chain, Video
13 points by suraci 47 days ago | 0 comments