Free members of UAE94 and all prisoners of conscience

  • UAE
  • 3/07/2021

On the eighth anniversary of the verdicts in the mass trial of prominent human rights defenders, judges, academics and students known as the UAE94, the Gulf Centre for

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Actress Entisar Al-Hammadi attempts suicide and journalist Mohammed Al-Azizi attacked

  • Yemen
  • 1/07/2021

On 28 June 2021, actress and model Entisar Al-Hammadi (photo on the left) was transferred to a hospital inside the Central Prison in Sana'a where she is being held after

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Two prominent women human rights defenders released

  • Saudi Arabia
  • 27/06/2021

Two prominent Saudi women human rights defenders, Nassima Al-Sadah and Samar Badawi, were released from prison today, according to the Gulf Centre for Human Rights

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Tribute to Emirati woman human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq

  • UAE
  • 21/06/2021

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is deeply saddened by the loss of courageous Emirati human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq, Executive Director of ALQST for Human

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Authorities continue to detain ten Egyptian citizens arrested in connection with Nubian symposium in July 2020

  • Egypt
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 19/06/2021

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the release of ten Egyptian citizens in Saudi Arabia who remain in prison without charge since their arrest in July

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Joint Letter to the Human Rights Council calling for an International Investigative Mission into the Beirut Blast

  • Lebanon
  • 17/06/2021

To the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, 17 June 2021 Excellencies, We, the undersigned Lebanese

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GCHR’s 15th periodic report on human rights violations during popular protests

  • Iraq
  • 15/06/2021

This is the 15th periodic report of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) on human rights violations in Iraq. The report sheds light on the assassinations of human

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Periodic report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights on human rights violations in the Kurdistan Region

  • Iraqi Kurdistan
  • 14/06/2021

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has witnessed continuous violations in the field of human rights, in particular freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly,

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GCHR files complaint in France against Maj. Gen. Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi for torture of Ahmed Mansoor

  • UAE
  • 12/06/2021

On behalf of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), French human rights lawyer William Bourdon lodged an official complaint with the Prosecutor's Office

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