“Rising for Freedom” magazine banned and journalists sentenced to prison, as VDC offices attacked by mob
“Rising for Freedom” (Talaana Aaharih) magazine has been banned in Douma, Syria and two of its journalists sentenced to prison over an article published earlier this
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Writer Mansour Al-Mahrazi awaiting appeal following three-year prison sentence
Reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) confirmed that the trial of the writer and researcher Mansour Bin Nasser Al-Mahrazi is ongoing in connection
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Human rights defender Omar Al-Hamid sentenced to three years in prison
Saudi human rights defender Omar Al-Hamid has been sentenced to three years in prison under the Anti-Cyber Crime Law, following a hearing on 08 August 2017 by the
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Human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli released
At 8:30pm on 01 August 2017, human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli was released from the Central Prison in Kuwait on bail of 500 Kuwait Dinars (approx. USD$1650)
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Rights groups condemn extrajudicial execution of human rights defender and software engineer Bassel Khartabil
The family of Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian-Palestinian software engineer and free speech activist, confirmed that he had been subjected to an extrajudicial execution in
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Human rights defender Maryam Al-Otaibi released from prison despite defying guardianship system
On 31 July 2017, Saudi woman human rights defender Maryam Al-Otaibi was released from prison after more than 100 days. She immediately said in a tweet, “You can
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Discrimination of Bedoon Community
An alternative report submitted by GCHR to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
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Women human rights defenders who are tortured in Bahrain will not receive justice
Women human rights defenders in Bahrain who have been tortured in Bahrain have been subjected to further persecution to stop them from working. In two separate cases,
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Prominent Bedoon human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli must be released
Prominent human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli is still being held at the Central Prison in Kuwait and risks facing deportation from the country, according to
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