Human Rights Watch Warns Trump Is Transforming USA Into Authoritarian State

Human Rights Watch warned that by May 2026 Trump was transforming the United States into an authoritarian state.

“The New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch has launched a blistering attack on the administration of US President Donald Trump, accusing him of using relentless pressure to crush the rules-based international order, “threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and… Subscribe toAsia Sentinelto keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives”

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The administration had undermined trust in elections, weakened accountability, attacked the judiciary, and suppressed free speech.

Asia Sentinel

HRW called on governments that still value human rights to form a strategic alliance.

ICE had carried out hundreds of unnecessarily violent and brutal raids.

The death toll in ICE custody rose to 36 since Trump’s return.

Cadena SER

Trump-led America had started erasing the past even as it tore down present protections.

HRW placed the United States at the center of a global domino effect of authoritarian advances.

“The balance is clear: since Donald J”

Diario Público

The US had shown support for Israeli war crimes and deepened American complicity.

Trump's unilateral actions reverberated worldwide, weakening institutions and emboldening autocrats.

HRW repeated its allegation that the US committed enforced disappearances.

The men sent to El Salvador later alleged they were tortured.

El Mundo

Democracy indicators have fallen to levels unseen since 1985.