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Human Rights Watch warns US heading to ‘authoritarianism’
- On Feb 4, 2026, Human Rights Watch released the 529-page World Report 2026, stating the United States has quickly fallen into a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism.
- The Trump administration is actively dismantling US democracy pillars and HRW says it withdrew from multilateral forums and gutted US State Department capacity.
- HRW documented specific abuses including sending 252 Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador maximum-security prison, masked ICE agents conducting hundreds of violent raids, and unlawful lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean and nearby parts of the Pacific Ocean.
- HRW concluded that US democracy has declined to 1985 levels, steep health-care subsidy cuts threaten millions of people’s insurance, and impunity risks hastening authoritarianism.
- Amid global trends, HRW urged the US State Department review contrasts with its report on over 100 countries and renews allegations against Israel, backed by the US.
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The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch warns in its annual report that US President Donald Trump is about to turn the United States into an authoritarian state, given that democracy and human rights are being attacked by all parties.
·Romania
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As part of the president's aggressive policy against immigration, the report highlights that, in order to arrest irregulars, in the last year "they have been carried out in hundreds of unnecessarily violent and abusive raids" Read
·Madrid, Spain
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The NGO Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday that President Donald Trump is transforming the United States into an authoritarian state while democracy and human rights are being attacked on all sides. ...
·Brussels, Belgium
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Total News Sources18
Leaning Left6Leaning Right3Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution50% Left
Bias Distribution
- 50% of the sources lean Left
50% Left
L 50%
C 25%
R 25%
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