By Abigail Williams and Didi Martinez The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report after months of delay Tuesday. The administration’s assessment of human rights abuses in some countries, which is one-tenth as long as last year’s report, reaches notably different conclusions and dedicates no sections to abuses against women or LGBTQ people. The report also places a new focus on restrictions of freedom of expression by U.S. adversaries and allies alike. Amanda Klasing, Amnesty International USA’s national director of government relations and advocacy, said the Trump administration engaged in highly selective documentation of
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