Gulf Centre for Human Rights Annual Report 2015: Human Rights Defenders in Prison and in Peril throughout the Gulf and Neighbouring Countries
This is the fourth Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), an independent NGO founded by human rights defenders from the Gulf region in 2011. GCHR
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Gulf Centre for Human Rights Annual Report says human rights defenders are in peril across the region
As wars and conflict rage across the region, human rights defenders are at risk says the fourth Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), “Human
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Writer and online activist Saed Al-Darodi sentenced to three months in prison
On 15 February 2016, the Court of Appeal in Salalah, Oman sentenced writer and online activist Saed Al-Darodi to three months in prison. On 07 October 2014, he published
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El Nadeem Centre for Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence served with closure order
Authorities in Egypt have ordered the closure of prominent Cairo-based El Nadeem Centre for Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Founded in 1993, El
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Child rights defender Atena Daemi released from prison while serving 14-year sentence
Children’s rights defender Atena Daemi was released from prison in Iran on 15 February in the midst of a 14-year sentence for her peaceful human rights activities. She
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Online activist Hassan Al-Basham sentenced to three years in prison
On 08 February 2016, the Court of First Instance Court in Sohar sentenced online activist Hassan Al-Basham to three years in prison. He was convicted of charges
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Gulf Centre for Human Rights mourns the passing of advisory board member Lord Eric Avebury and celebrates his life
Lord Eric Avebury, a British parliamentarian who was a member of the Advisory Board of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), passed away today, 14 February 2016, in a
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GCHR legal challenge, don’t erase accountability!
Help Needed The Gulf Center for Human Rights is a small NGO taking on a big task: taking the UK government to court over its decision to remove longstanding
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Human rights defenders sentenced to jail as pattern of systematic judicial harassment continues
The systematic targeting of human rights defenders and activists by the government of Bahrain continued unabated as three human rights defenders and an activist
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