Amnesty International has called upon US mayors and governors to protect people from armed groups and to denounce white supremacy ahead of next week's Presidential Inauguration.
As US lawmakers were meeting on 6 January 2021 to ratify the results of the presidential election, far-right supporters of the US president, Donald Trump, stormed the building.
A federal court has blocked an Indiana law that would have allowed county election officials to remove voters from the rolls immediately, without notice.
A US District Judge has blocked federal agents in Portland from dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, or targeting force against journalists or legal observers at protests.
The recent spate of killings of African-Americans involving impunity and the use of public spaces to assert racial control are characteristic of lynching, says a group of UN human rights experts.
Campaigners have called on the UK government to end the sale of repressive equipment to police forces across the US and investigate if any of it has been used against protesters.