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Bahrain

Free Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace

Nine Bahraini and international NGOs and the University College Union launched a campaign this week marking the 100th day of detained human rights defender, Dr.

3/07/2015 Take Action
Bahrain

Human rights groups express grave concern as imprisoned Bahraini activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja goes public with hunger strike

After several unsuccessful appeals to prison administration officials for adequate medical assistance, leading Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi

18/03/2015 Take Action
UAE

Human Rights Lawyer Mohammed Al-Roken subjected to ill-treatment in prison and placed in a solitary confinement

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received reliable reports that the prominent human rights lawyer Mohammed Al-Roken, a prisoner of conscience in the

13/05/2014 Take Action
Saudi Arabia

Human rights defender and editor Raef Badawi sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in addition to 1000 lashes and a fine of one million riyals

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is gravely concerned by the information it has received that human rights defender and editor Raef Badawi has been

8/05/2014 Take Action
Saudi Arabia

Authorities continue to target human rights ‎lawyer Walid Abu Al-Khair

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is concerned about irregularities in the ongoing trial of human rights lawyer Walid Abu Al-Khair, which continued on 9

26/09/2013 Take Action
Yemen

National Security Apparatus threatened journalist ‎Mohammed Al-Abbsi and the French Embassy refused to grant him and Sami Ghalib a visa to give a testimony before Swedish Parliament

On 02 September 2013, journalist and human rights defender Mohammed Al-Abbsi published a letter addressed from the head of the National Security Agency to the

20/09/2013 Take Action
Saudi Arabia

Human rights defender and editor Raef Badawi sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison plus 600 lashes

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information that human rights defender and editor Raef Badawi has been sentenced to 7 years and 3 months

31/07/2013 Take Action
UAE

Ongoing targeting of human rights defenders, activists, and their families

Human rights defenders and their families continue to be targeted by authorities in the UAE as many remain in detention, while others sentenced in abstentia facing

11/07/2013 Take Action
UAE

Prominent human rights lawyer Dr. Mohammad Al-Roken describes violations committed by authorities against UAE94 in prison

The internationally renowned human rights lawyer, Dr. Mohammed Al-Roken, talked, in a letter sent to his family, about human rights violations committed by the 

28/04/2013 Take Action