Atrocities take place in democratic nations as well as autocratic ones—our database has logged them all

Thousands of people were killed by Iranian security forces in days of protests in January 2026. Meanwhile, in the same month, the killing of two protesters in Minneapolis shone a light on the use of fatal force by American law enforcement—a phenomenon that in 2025 saw the deaths of more than 1,300 people in the U.S., according to data tracking such incidents.