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@alexakoenig.bsky.social

JD PhD Co-Director, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley + Co-Founder, Investigations Lab #BerkeleyProtocol Recovered Performer, Eternal Optimist Forthcoming books: Digital Witness 2 and At the Intersection picture thx: Jason Madara for The Resistance

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Alexa@alexakoenig.bsky.social · last mo.

Our teams at Physicians for Human Rights + @hrcberkeley.bsky.social's Investigations Lab spent a year documenting + verifying improper crowd-control tactics across the U.S., creating a dataset for reporters + lawyers, spotlighting violations of US Constitutional + human rights law. More below 👇

Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 U.S. law enforcement agents misused crowd-control weapons during protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in 412 verified incidents across 16 U.S. cities from June 2025 until May 2026, Physicians for Human Rights and HRC found: phr.org/charting-the...

Graphic with a black "BREAKING" banner. Text reads: "U.S. law enforcement misused dangerous crowd-control weapons against protesters more than 400 times during demonstrations against Trump’s immigration enforcement actions." The phrase "400 times" is highlighted in red. The bottom includes a red arrow pointing right, plus logos for "CHARTING THE CRACKDOWN", "PHR", and "HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER UC Berkeley School of Law" against a blurry background of a person holding a weapon.
Kolina Koltai@koltai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Absolutely phenomenal to hear both @manisha.bsky.social and @alexakoenig.bsky.social talk about their experience working in the field of OSINT. What a treat to have them both on stage together, including their experiences as women in this space.

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International Journalism Festival@journalismfestival.com · 4mo ago

🔴 OSINT, accountability, and the future of human rights reporting #ijf26 with @manisha.bsky.social Alexa Koenig 🎥 Live & On Demand > www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"[Bystander video] is one of the tools at the disposal of everyday people that is a cornerstone of really being able to hold government actors accountable + help individuals who cannot be there on the ground understand what is happening," @alexakoenig.bsky.social: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Protesters, immigration agencies battle — on social media

Social media has become a critical tool for documenting the activity of federal agents. In some cases, officers are filming activists right back.

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Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In a new @opiniojuris.bsky.social blog, HRC's @alexakoenig.bsky.social & @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social reflect on the challenges of running open source investigations labs at public universities: opiniojuris.org/2026/01/12/i...

Innovative but Precarious: The Challenge of Running Open-Source Investigations Labs at Public Universities

[Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the center’s Investigations L…

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UC Berkeley Law@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"We believe that Open-Source Investigation Labs can and should become part of the educational and research infrastructure of the public university." — Opinion by Prof. Alexa Koenig and Utrecht University’s Prof. Brianne McGonigle Leyh: https://bit.ly/4aYZHRo #BerkeleyLaw @alexakoenig.bsky.social

Innovative but Precarious: The Challenge of Running Open-Source Investigations Labs at Public Universities

[Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the center’s Investigations L…

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UC Berkeley Law@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Watch: Professor Alexa Koenig, co-faculty director of @hrcberkeley.bsky.social, appeared on @ktvufox2.bsky.social to discuss research on El Salvador’s CECOT prison: https://www.ktvu.com/video/1759430 #BerkeleyLaw @alexakoenig.bsky.social

El Salvador’s mega-prison: what UC Berkeley researchers found

Alexa Koenig, Berkeley law co-faculty director, Human Rights Center, shares findings into the deportations of Venezuelan's to El Salvador's CECOT prison. The UC Berkeley research team was part of a st...

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Mark Kersten@markkersten.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Canadian #ICC Judge Prost has spoken about the emotional & practical toll that US sanctions against her have taken. Yet Ottawa will not speak out against these sanctions. The reason, I have had confirmed, is bc Canada is afraid of American anger at calling sanctions out. A sad state of affairs.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Alexa@alexakoenig.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thanks to 60 Minutes for covering this important issue. I'm incredibly grateful to all of the members of the Human Rights Center team for their work and to Human Rights Watch for trusting us with a small piece of their effort to illuminate the experiences of the men sent to CECOT 👇

Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Tune into @60minutes.bsky.social this Sunday to watch @alexakoenig.bsky.social & our Investigations Lab students highlight their research with @hrw.org + @cristosal.bsky.social, documenting inhumane conditions in El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison: www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...

Kolina Koltai@koltai.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I chatted with @alexakoenig.bsky.social at @hrcberkeley.bsky.social about investigating sexual and gender based crimes online. Anyone who knows me can tell you this is something I care deeply about and we're at a cultural turning point to either stop it or let it flourish medium.com/@maggie.visu...

Investigating sexual and gender-based crimes online

To celebrate the publication of the Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code, our Faculty Director Alexa Koenig sat down with…

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Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"A structural approach to OSI collaborations may enhance rigorous, credible and meaningful investigations that leverage the richness of multidisciplinary input, rather than being hampered by it." Read more in @opiniojuris.bsky.social / @alexakoenig.bsky.social: opiniojuris.org/2025/11/24/c...

Collaborations Across Borders and Disciplines: Insights from Open-Source Investigations

[Isabella Regan is PhD researcher at the department of Law, Society and Crime of Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, focusing on public and private open-source investigations and atrocity crimes. Ale…

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Alexa@alexakoenig.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/2 "Investigating Hell" - our student team at the @hrcberkeley.bsky.social's Investigations Lab discuss their methods + experiences conducting open source research for Human Rights Watch's important new report "You Have Arrived in Hell" medium.com/humanrightsc...

Investigating hell: How our students supported Human Rights Watch’s report on El Salvador’s CECOT

This is a co-authored post by Talia Harter, Maneh Davityan, Kyle Sweasey, Nick D’Acri, Ana Gonzalez, Audrey Colocho, Daniella Spero

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Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 1/2: Our Investigations Lab students + staff contributed essential research verifying detention conditions and patterns of abuse in @hrw.org + @cristosal.bsky.social's new report on arbitrary detention, torture + inhumane conditions in El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison. 🔗 www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

“You Have Arrived in Hell”

The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Sal...

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Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧵1/5 Our October newsletter just dropped! Check out our new projects & latest updates, including groundbreaking research on farmworker safety, a visit from @bellingcat.com to our Investigations Lab, our annual Human Rights Fellowship Conference, & much more: conta.cc/43JPELf

HRC October Newsletter

Email from Human Rights Center New wildfire safe and healthy research, fellowship conference, and more!     October 2025 Newsletter 2024–2025 student fellow Rachel Wallace presents on a panel at the 2

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Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled that HRC Faculty Director @alexakoenig.bsky.social is one of the inaugural members of Women Transforming Global Security, a new feminist global network addressing crises related to nuclear weapons proliferation, climate change, human rights, and more: transformingsecurity.org

Reimagining Security for the 21st Century - WTGS

Women Transforming Global Security represents a groundbreaking alliance of distinguished women leaders pioneering a comprehensive framework for addressing

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Alexa@alexakoenig.bsky.social · 12mo ago

1/2 Article out from Chicago on guidelines we'll be launching this fall w/ the Institute for International Criminal Investigations on using #OSINT methods to investigate sexual and gender-based violence w/ the goal of bringing two int'l investigative worlds together cjil.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Digital Investigations of Systematic and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Practice and Possibilities | Chicago Journal of International Law

I. Introduction

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Gregg Butensky@gbutensky.bsky.social · last yr.

OSINT Provides Powerful Evidence of Gender Crimes in Iran and Beyond Well done Alexa Koenig @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Andrea Richardson. #OSINT #ICC

Human Rights Center@hrcberkeley.bsky.social · last yr.

The final in a special @justsecurity.org series, @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Andrea Richardson discuss how #OSINT can strengthen accountability for gender crimes through our report on attacks against #WomanLifeFreedom protestors: www.justsecurity.org/112988/open-...

Gregg Butensky@gbutensky.bsky.social · last yr.

“Allowing the worldwide publication of war crimes on the open web emboldens perpetrators, demoralizes victims, and frustrates national law enforcement, who rarely have jurisdiction to act when crimes are committed outside their territories," writes Lindsay Freeman - @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social

Alexa@alexakoenig.bsky.social · last yr.

"In West Africa...there is a new band of online influencers: war influencers" @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social @hrcberkeley.bsky.social details how the Wagner group + other PMCs use Telegram to terrorize - and details 1st steps to accountability www.lawfaremedia.org/article/war-...