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Journalist Ahmed Hassan Al-Zoubi released

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  • Jordan
  • 20/01/2025

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received reliable reports confirming that well-known writer and journalist Ahmed Hassan Al-Zoubi has been released from

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Several prominent human rights defenders released after lengthy imprisonment

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 8/01/2025

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) greatly welcomes the news of the release of several human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia after lengthy imprisonment. Among

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Human rights lawyer released, juveniles detained, and corruption in public prosecution

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  • Qatar
  • 6/01/2025

Reliable reports confirmed that human rights lawyer Rashid Al-Marri has been released, while local sources reported that security forces arrested a group of 90

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Blogger Salman Al-Khalidi extradited from Iraq to Kuwait

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  • Kuwait
  • 3/01/2025

Iraqi authorities handed over Kuwaiti blogger Salman Al-Khalidi, who was sentenced in absentia to long years in prison, to Kuwaiti authorities at the Kuwaiti Al-Abdali

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Full solidarity with the Moroccan Association for Human Rights & its President Aziz Ghali

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  • MENA
  • 1/01/2025

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) declares its full solidarity with the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) and its President, Dr. Aziz Ghali, in light

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Attacked from all directions: Media workers under fire in Lebanon’s war

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  • Lebanon
  • 18/12/2024

Journalists, lawyers and other Human Rights Defenders in Lebanon working in the context of the war report severe attacks on those exercising their freedom of

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Dr. Mohammed Fahad Al-Qahtani resumes phone calls to family after two years of forced disappearance

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 17/12/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news that prominent human rights defender, Dr. Mohammed Fahad Al-Qahtani, was able to call his family after two

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After 5,000 days of arbitrary detention, Bahrain must immediately release Danish-Bahraini citizen and human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

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  • Bahrain
  • 16/12/2024

Today, 16 December 2024, Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has endured 5,000 days of arbitrary detention in Bahrain. We, the undersigned,

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Arab Countries: Muscat Announcement on Beijing Declaration on Women’s Rights does not protect WHRDs against state abuse

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  • MENA
  • Oman
  • 13/12/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) followed the news of the High-Level Regional Meeting of the Arab Countries on progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration

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