Authorities severely restrict public freedoms

  • Jordan
  • 5/04/2024

The Jordanian streets are witnessing a massive wave of tension and anger over the current political events and war in the Gaza Strip, which has led to thousands of

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Authorities continue to target Qatari human rights defender Abdullah Al-Maliki

  • Qatar
  • 21/02/2024

Authorities in Qatar continue to target prominent human rights defender Abdullah Al-Maliki at all levels, as part of their efforts to force him to return to the country

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Free all those on trial in UAE84 case and drop charges

  • UAE
  • 12/02/2024

The Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center (EDAC), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch urgently appeal to United Nations

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Bedoon community rights defender Mohammed Al-Barghash sentenced to 3 years in prison

  • Kuwait
  • 2/02/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the three-year prison sentence issued against the prominent defender of the rights of the Bedoon

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Blogger Salman Al-Khalidi sentenced to additional three years in prison in new case

  • Kuwait
  • 30/01/2024

Once again, the State Security Criminal Court in Kuwait issued a three-year prison sentence in a new case against blogger Salman Al-Khalidi as part of the ongoing

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Woman human rights defender Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali does not face imminent execution

  • Yemen
  • 25/01/2024

Informed sources in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, confirmed to the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) that the implementation of the death sentence against human

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Bedoon community rights defender Mohammed Al-Barghash on trial again

  • Kuwait
  • 19/01/2024

A prominent defender of the rights of the Bedoon community, Mohammed Al-Barghash, has been put on trial again in Kuwait, over his peaceful human rights

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Rampant corruption amid absence of transparency and accountability

  • Qatar
  • 17/01/2024

Amid a complete absence of transparency and effective accountability mechanisms, corruption is rampant in Qatar at a time when influential members of the ruling

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Human rights organisations join the open call for an immediate physical and digital ceasefire in Gaza, and for Palestinians globally

  • MENA
  • 22/10/2023

We, the undersigned digital and human rights organisations, join the open call for an immediate ceasefire to end the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, to halt a

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