Writer and woman human rights defender Hatoon Al-Fassi arrested the week after driving ban lifted
Saudi Arabia continues to flout international calls to free women’s rights defenders arrested in a crackdown on critics since that began in May 2018, as news
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UNHRC Side Event examines crackdown on cyberactivism and repression of digital rights in the Gulf and Neighbouring Countries
At a side event on “Digital Rights Across the Gulf and Neighbouring Countries”, held at the 38th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
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GCHR report maps cybercrime laws and violations of digital rights in the Gulf and Neighbouring Countries
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has released an extensive new report surveying the status of digital rights across the region. The report finds that national and
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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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