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On the International Human Rights Day we remember our fellow detained human rights defenders

  • News
  • MENA
  • 10/12/2014

On International Human Rights Day – which falls today, on the 10th of December – the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses full solidarity and

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No word on four abducted activists / A year on, no information on Douma Four

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  • Syria
  • 9/12/2014

The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazem Hamadi – the Douma Four—remain missing a year after their

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Human rights defender Samar Badawi banned from travel prior to EU meeting

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 3/12/2014

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is deeply concerned following the travel ban that has been imposed on human rights defender Samar Badawi, who works on defending

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GCHR website blocked

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 2/12/2014

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) deplores the blocking of its website (gc4hr.org) by the Saudi authorities and considers it as a form of repression that is part

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Arrest of two activists who defend the women’s right to drive a car

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 2/12/2014

Two activists Maysaa Al-Amodi and Lujain Al-Hathlol have been arrested on 1st December 2014. They have both been working strongly in defense of women's right to drive in

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Update in relation to human rights defenders Zainab Al-Khawaja and Maryam Al-Khawaja, daughters of imprisoned Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

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  • Bahrain
  • 1/12/2014

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses serious and on-going concern at the treatment and judicial harassment of human rights defenders Zainab Al-Khawaja and

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Statement by Maryam Al-Khawaja on the Decision to Boycott Bahrain Court

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  • Bahrain
  • 30/11/2014

As a human rights defender, I, Maryam Al-Khawaja, Director of Advocacy at the Gulf Center for Human Rights, have decided to boycott my court hearing on the 1st of

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Anniversary of sentenced poet recalls the need for the promotion and protection of freedom of expression and all human rights

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  • Qatar
  • 29/11/2014

On the third anniversary of the sentencing of jailed poet Mohamed Rashid Al-Ajami, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) reiterates its call on the government of Qatar

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Women’s rights defender Ghada Jamsheer released and immediately re-arrested

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  • Bahrain
  • 29/11/2014

  The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) express serious concern over the re-arrest of women’s rights defender

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