The ill-treatment of detained human rights defenders in the Kingdom

  • Saudi Arabia
  • 27/02/2014

According to reliable reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), widespread ill-treatment of human rights defenders (HRDs) at the hand of state

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Saudi Arabia- Human rights lawyer Waleed Abu Al-Khair’s three months sentence upheld by Court of Appeal

  • Saudi Arabia
  • 25/02/2014

On 24 February 2014, human rights lawyer Waleed Abu Al-Khair was informed that the Court of Appeal in Mecca upheld a prison sentence against him. The three-month

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Three activists summoned for investigation as discrimination against Bedoon community continues

  • Kuwait
  • 22/02/2014

Human rights activists involved in defending and monitoring the rights of the Bedoon community in Kuwait continue to be targeted by the authorities. Over the past few

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On the second anniversary of the arrest of Mazen Darwish the human rights situation remains critical as two more human rights defenders are targeted

  • Syria
  • 20/02/2014

16 February 2014 marked the two-year anniversary of the arbitrary arrest of prominent human rights defender Mazen Darwish.  Despite the international reaction and

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Freedom of the press at risk as nine media workers targeted in one week

  • Yemen
  • 16/02/2014

The protection and freedom of the press is seriously at risk in Yemen, as nine journalists were subjected to severe human rights violations over the course of one

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Continued use of politicized judiciary by the authority to keep activist Zaynab Al-Khawaja behind Bars

  • Bahrain
  • 15/02/2014

The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express their deep concern for the on-going targeting of the detained activist and

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Bahrain: The government continues to attack journalists and target press freedom

  • Bahrain
  • 14/02/2014

Bahrain correspondent of France 24 and Radio Monte Carlo International, Nazeeha Saeed, this peaceful journalist exposed, blindfolded, to a brutal and inhuman torture

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TORTURE IN OMAN

  • Oman
  • 29/01/2014

Download “I thought they were killing Said, and that I was next. I could hear beating and shouting. I didn’t want to die afraid; I wanted to be strong,

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TORTURE IN OMAN

  • Oman
  • 29/01/2014

  The practice of torture is widespread in Oman state penal institutions and has become the state’s knee jerk reaction to independent political expression,

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