The lack of network neutrality and the human rights crisis in MENA region
This post was written by Khalid Ibrahim, executive director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights, an independent, non-profit organisation that promotes freedom
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Mission report illustrates difficulty of verifying conditions of detention and trial of Ahmed Mansoor, serving 10-year sentence for human rights reporting
Fifteen months after the arrest of prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), human rights organisations still have no
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Mwatana’s leaders Radhya Al-Mutawakel & Abdulrasheed Al-Faqih detained at airport
On 18 June 2018, the President of Mwatana Organization for Human Rights in Yemen, Radhya Al-Mutawakel, and Executive Director Abdulrasheed Al-Faqih were detained for a
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Writer and Internet activist Abdullah Habib released
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes reports that writer and online activist Abdullah Habib was pardoned and released from prison in Oman while serving a
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Two more women human rights defenders arrested, as campaign continues against vocal supporters of women’s rights
Despite loud calls from the United Nations (UN) and the European Parliament (EP) to release all the Saudi human rights defenders detained in a recent crackdown that
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Nabeel Rajab’s five-year sentence upheld for tweeting about the war in Yemen and torture in Jaw Prison
On 05 June 2018, the Bahrain’s High Court of Appeal upheld a five-year sentence against Nabeel Rajab, founding director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR),
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Shocking 10-year sentence for award-winning activist Ahmed Mansoor for Twitter posts is a devastating blow to human rights
The authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) must immediately and unconditionally release prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, who has been sentenced to
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Four women’s rights defenders released while another prominent human rights defender arrested in ongoing crackdown
One of Saudi Arabia's most well-known human rights defenders, Mohammed Al-Bajadi, a founding member of the Civil and Political Rights Association in Saudi Arabia
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Photographer Sayed Baqer Al-Kamel and online blogger Sayed Ali Al-Durazi sentenced to prison, while Nabeel Rajab awaits appeal verdict
In May, journalists, media workers and human rights defenders continued to suffer in Bahrain, and human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, founding director of the Gulf
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