U.S. plans to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, Russia

[speak easy]

Source: Washington Post

Leaked draft reports show the Trump administration is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of prisoner abuse, corruption, LGBTQ+ discrimination and other alleged abuses. The administration says the reports are shorter for “readability.”

Leaked drafts of the State Department’s long-delayed annual human rights reports indicate that the Trump administration intends to dramatically scale back U.S. government criticism of certain foreign nations with extensive records of abuse.

The draft human rights reports for El Salvador, Israel and Russia, copies of which were reviewed by The Washington Post, are significantly shorter than the ones prepared last year by the Biden administration. They strike all references to LGBTQ+ individuals or crimes against them, and the descriptions of government abuses that do remain have been softened.

The draft report for El Salvador, which, at the Trump administration’s urging, has agreed to incarcerate migrants deported from the United States, states that the country had “no credible reports of significant human rights abuses” in 2024. The State Department’s previous report for El Salvador, documenting 2023, identified “significant human rights issues” there — including government-sanctioned killings, instances of torture, and “harsh and life-threatening prison conditions.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/06/trump-human-rights-el-salvador-israel-russia/

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"There no credible reports of significant human rights abuses” in El Salvador and it goes without saying 'there no credible reports of significant human rights abuses' in Donald Trump's America either.

[Buddyzbuddy]

1. Glass houses and that sort of thing.

[Initech]

2. What do all 3 of these countries have in common? Oh yeah, dictators!

Fuck all of them!