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Three activists summoned for investigation as discrimination against Bedoon community continues

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  • Kuwait
  • 22/02/2014

Human rights activists involved in defending and monitoring the rights of the Bedoon community in Kuwait continue to be targeted by the authorities. Over the past few

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On the second anniversary of the arrest of Mazen Darwish the human rights situation remains critical as two more human rights defenders are targeted

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  • Syria
  • 20/02/2014

16 February 2014 marked the two-year anniversary of the arbitrary arrest of prominent human rights defender Mazen Darwish.  Despite the international reaction and

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Freedom of the press at risk as nine media workers targeted in one week

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  • Yemen
  • 16/02/2014

The protection and freedom of the press is seriously at risk in Yemen, as nine journalists were subjected to severe human rights violations over the course of one

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Continued use of politicized judiciary by the authority to keep activist Zaynab Al-Khawaja behind Bars

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  • Bahrain
  • 15/02/2014

The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express their deep concern for the on-going targeting of the detained activist and

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TORTURE IN OMAN

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  • Oman
  • 29/01/2014

  The practice of torture is widespread in Oman state penal institutions and has become the state’s knee jerk reaction to independent political expression,

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Bahrain must abide by its own laws and immediately release leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab

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  • Bahrain
  • 28/01/2014

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses grave concern regarding the Bahraini authorities’ treatment of

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Bahrain- Imprisoned medic deprived of adequate medical treatment for injuries sustained through torture, and authorities prosecute yet another human rights defender

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  • Bahrain
  • 22/01/2014

The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express concerns about the ongoing deterioration of the status of human rights

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Authorities target the families of human rights defenders convicted in the UAE 94 case

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  • UAE
  • 11/01/2014

On 10 January 2014, the authorities in UAE arbitrarily detained Aisha Ibrahim Al-Zaabi as she tried to leave the country with her 18-month-old son. Al-Zaabi is the wife

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Letter from prominent human rights defender, and the main founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

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  • MENA
  • 7/01/2014

Human rights defenders are serving their country in order to get general freedoms. They are also pushing for social reform, as human rights is equal to social reform. We

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