Iraqi Kurdistan: No safe haven for human rights defenders and independent journalists
Download Mission ReportDecember 2014 Contents I. Introduction II. Civil Society Under
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Mission report to Iraqi Kurdistan finds media and civil society at risk
Many see Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, as a safe haven, a place of relative calm away from the terror and chaos that exists in much of the rest
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Letter to Human Rights Defenders from Abdulhadi Alkhawaja
As human rights defenders you are like sailors and as sailors you are fighting the waves and watching the wind. If the waves are the oppressive regimes you are fighting
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Maysaa Al-Amodi and Lujain Al-Hathlol to appear before the Terrorism Court for driving a car
On 25 December 2014, the Partial Court in the city of Al-Ahsaa dismissed the case against activists Maysaa Al-Amodi and Lujain Al-Hathlol who were detained for
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Blogger Mohammed Al-Fazari arrested
On 22 December 2014 at 11:30am, human rights defender Mohammed Al-Fazari was stopped at Muscat International airport by security authorities who informed him that a
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Jdea Nawfal from Syria and Ghada Jamsheer from Bahrain Released
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the release of two human rights defenders in Syria and Bahrain this week. Jdea Abdullah Nawfal, who is the
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free prominent human rights defender Saed Jadad
Update: On 21 December 2014 he has been released on bail. Reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) confirm that human rights defender Said Jadad has
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Fear that Anti-Terrorism Law will be used to curtail human rights and target human rights defenders
A coalition of international NGOs is seriously concerned about the impact of the Anti-Terrorism Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that was approved by
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Human rights defender Saed Jadad arbitrarily detained
On International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2014, security forces raided the house of human rights defender Saed Jadad in Salalah city and took him away without any
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