Latest Fact-Checks In Human Rights

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2016 an interview with NBC News
Germany "is crime-riddled right now" because of migration to Europe.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 a Clinton campaign tweet
Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News
"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."
True
By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 a TV ad
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016
Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro
stated on March 21, 2016 a press conference in Havana
Says there are no political prisoners in Cuba.
False
By Linda Qiu • March 22, 2016
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly
stated on November 11, 2015 a broadcast of "The Kelly File" on Fox News
"In a period of roughly 72 hours, a small group of angry black students managed to force the resignation of the two highest ranking officials at that school."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 13, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File"
There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 23, 2015 a monologue on his radio show
"Eighty-five percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2015
Bishop Thomas Tobin
Bishop Thomas Tobin
stated on January 22, 2015 a newspaper column
"Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood."
False
By Katie Mulvaney • March 2, 2015
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics
The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015
Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on December 18, 2014 a press conference
Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • December 23, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 a TV interview
The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 a press conference
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 14, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Saddam Hussein "had a 10-year relationship with al-Qaida."
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 14, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 8, 2014 a news release
The authors of a report on CIA’s torture techniques "never interviewed a single CIA official."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 11, 2014
Benjamin Crump
Benjamin Crump
stated on November 23, 2014 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Says "99 percent of the time police officers aren't charged when they kill young people of color."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 25, 2014
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary
"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference in Beijing.
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 17, 2014
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan
stated on September 29, 2014 an interview on "CNN Tonight"
Says female genital mutilation is "a central African problem," not an Islamic problem, as Bill Maher suggested.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 2, 2014
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