Human Rights Defender Bahareh Hedayat Must be Released
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of student activist and women’s rights defender Bahareh Hedayat, detained in
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Free Human Rights Lawyer Release Khalil Ma’touq Immediately, Unconditionally
(Geneva October 2, 2014) – The Syrian government should immediately and unconditionally free the prominent human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq and his colleague
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Journalists Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi still detained without charge
Update: Yeganeh Salehi has been released without charge on 6 October 2014. Jason is still detained on charges of "espionage", "collaboration with hostile governments",
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Free Renowned Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab and Stop the Pattern of Arrests
We, the staff and Advisory Board members of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), call for the immediate release of our colleague Nabeel Rajab, GCHR Director, who has
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Testimony and Trial of Human Rights Defender and Co-Director of GCHR Maryam Al-Khawaja
On 1 October 2014, human rights defender and Co-Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) Maryam Al-Khawaja will appear before the High Criminal Court on
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The GCHR calls for the freedom of the press to be respected in Yemen
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses serious concern at the attack on freedom of expression in Yemen as media stations and journalists are
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Postponement of trial of human rights defender Osama Al-Najjar
On September 23 2014, the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi heard the case of human rights defender and on-line activist Osama Al-Najjar. The Court postponed the
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Authorities forced blogger and human rights defender Mikhlif Al-Shammari to stops tweeting
As part of the ongoing systematic targeting by the Saudi government of human rights defenders and online activists, On 22 September 2014, blogger and human rights
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Lawyer and human rights defender Samira Saleh Al-Naimi executed by ISIS in Mosul
With utmost sorrow and grief, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) received the news of the execution by the so called Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS)
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