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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GCHR calls for net neutrality and for an end to surveillance of human rights defenders in the MENA region, during events at RightsCon
At RightsCon 2018 in Toronto, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and partners from Access Now, Pshiphon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Bahrain Watch called
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Seven Saudi women’s rights defenders branded as traitors in a dangerous new wave of arrests
23-05-2018 Update: Dr. Aisha Al-Manae was released from custody on 23 May 2018 after becoming ill. 22-05-2018 Update: An additional name, Ibrahim Fahad
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Palestinian human rights defender Ghassan Abdullah detained for two days
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the release of human rights defender, Ghassan Abdullah, General Director of the Palestinian Human Rights Organisation
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Human rights defenders including women’s rights activists arrested
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received reliable information that several human rights defenders were arrested yesterday in Saudi Arabia, 17 May 2018,
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Newly enacted Anti-Cybercrime Law threatens online freedom of opinion and expression
Syria has enacted an Anti-Cybercrime Law that threatens the already fragile space for online expression even more, according to analysis by the Gulf Centre for Human
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Court of Cassation postpones verdict for human rights defender Sulaiman Bin Jassim and others accused of storming Parliament
On 06 May 2018, the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation again postponed the case of human rights defender Sulaiman Bin Jassim and dozens of others who were sentenced to prison
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