Sweden cancels arms deal with Saudi Arabia
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the decision by Sweden to cancel its arms deal with Saudi Arabia and encourages all other States to follow suit and
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Oman/UAE-Freedom of expression continues to be targeted as Omani blogger Muawiya Al Rawahi held in incommunicado detention at UAE border and human rights defender Abdullah Ghailani subject to harassment
Freedom of expression continues to be under serious threat in the UAE. In the latest of a series of violations of this most basic right prominent Omani blogger
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Attacks Against Human Rights Defenders in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iraq
Geneva, 13 March 2015- The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) held a well-attended meeting entitled, Systematic Repression: Attacks Against Human Rights
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GCHR report documents failure to investigate abuse and torture in Emirati prisons
12 March 2015 – A government inquiry into the torture and abuse of political prisoners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is long overdue, says a new report
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#CollateralFreedom United Arab Emirates to get access to censored Gulf Centre for Human Rights website
To mark World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (12 March 2015), Reporters Without Borders is launching “Operation Collateral Freedom” to unblock nine censored websites
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Human rights defender Mohammed Al-Bajadi sentenced to 10 years in prison
The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced human rights defender Mohammed Al-Bajadi to ten years in prison during the sixth session of his trial on 5 March 2015.
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Prominent human rights defender Saed Jadad sentenced to three years in prison
On 8 March 2015, the Court of First Instance in Muscat sentenced prominent human rights defender Saed Jadad to three years in prison on several different charges. The
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Serious concerns about use of new citizenship law to target human rights defenders and activists
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is gravely concerned that the new Omani Citizenship Law, which was enacted on 12 August 2014 under Royal Decree No. 2014/38, can
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Stop the charade and release activists convicted at the mass UAE 94 trial
On the second anniversary of the start of the mass “UAE 94” trial that imprisoned dozens of government critics and reform activists in the United Arab Emirates
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