Health of UAE94 hunger strikers deteriorates and Cyber Law used to target human rights defenders
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses serious concern at the situation of 18 of the UAE 94 who are on hunger strike as their health is rapidly deteriorating.
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Iran- Gulf Center for Human Rights Welcomes Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh; Calls on Iran to Release all Human Rights Defenders
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news that human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been released on 18 September 2013 after being imprisoned since 4
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Bahrain- GCHR & BCHR express their grave concern over the continued attacks and harassment of Bahraini rights defenders
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) express their grave concern over the continued attacks and harassment, including
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Repression and Impunity in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Yemen
On 12 September 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)
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Yemen- The death of human rights defender Ibrahim Mothana
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has sadly received reports from Yemen confirming that on 05 September 2013, human rights defender, Ibrahim Mothana died
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Iraq – Violation of right to peaceful assembly and targeting of human rights defenders
On 31 August 2013, despite attempts by authorities to block peaceful demonstrations, thousands of protestors took to the streets in Baghdad and many provinces in the
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UAE 94 trial violates the basic rights to fair trial and due process
In the final hearing of a group of people collectively known as the "UAE 94", the Federal Supreme Court of Abu Dhabi sentenced 56 people, including prominent human
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Syria- Hearing of human rights defenders on unfounded terrorism charges postponed
On 21 August 2013, human rights defenders, Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghareer, Hani Al-Zitani, Mansour Al-Omari, and Abd Al-Rahman Hamada, appeared before the Anti-Terrorism
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Authorities continue to target NGOs by means of imprisonment and judicial harassment
The Saudi authorities continue to target members of the Association for Civil and Political Rights(ACRPA) by means of imprisonment, travel bans and judicial
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