crackdown

Children victimized in El Salvador’s anti-gang crackdown, rights group alleges
July 17, 2024
MEXICO CITY — Thousands of poverty-stricken children in El Salvador have suffered arbitrary detention, torture and other abuse as part of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs,” Human Rights...
DOJ’s $2.7 billion health care fraud crackdown: What we know
June 27, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it filed criminal charges against 193 people, including 76 doctors and other medical professionals, across the country over health care schemes that could...
Russia declares a former presidential hopeful and others as ‘foreign agents’ as it presses crackdown
May 31, 2024
The Russian authorities on Friday declared a former presidential hopeful, a prominent human rights advocate and several others to be “foreign agents,” the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown...