Over 150 NGOs appeal for death sentences of four journalists to be overturned
Organisations which support human rights, press freedom and journalists are calling on United Nations mechanisms and member states to help save the lives of four
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Popular protests return as deteriorating economic situation causes widespread suffering
The authorities in Lebanon continue to enforce arbitrary and repressive policies to deal with the popular protest movement, which has erupted again, since the protests
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Authorities must end grave violations against human rights defenders
In this short report, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has documented grave human rights violations committed by the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Call to regulate automated content moderation during COVID-19 GCHR signs a letter with 45 organisations to social media and content-sharing platforms
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) signed a letter addressed to social media and content-sharing platforms to regulate automated content moderation during the
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Journalist Abdulhafez Al-Samadi released
Early on 04 May 2020, at 1:30 in the morning, journalist Abdulhafez Al-Samadi (pictured on the left), was released in Yemen and met with all members of his family for
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World Press Freedom Day in the MENA region, between death and death sentences
As we mark another World Press Freedom Day on 03 May 2020, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is working on cases that are examples of the extreme lack of freedom
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Freedom Forum Adds 11 Names to Journalists Memorial, including journalists killed in Iraq and Syria
On Monday, 04 May 2020, the Freedom Forum adds the stories of 11 men and women to its Journalists Memorial to represent all journalists who died or were killed while
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Online activists released, while human rights lawyer Hani Hussain remains detained
Update: Kuwait: On 09 April 2020, the Criminal Court ordered the release of human rights lawyer Hani Hussain on a bail of 5000 Kuwaiti Dinar (approx.
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Four journalists appeal death sentence
On 22 April 2020, four journalists filed an appeal after being sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of spying and spreading false news. Six other journalists in the
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