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Journalists in Lebanon… Freedoms Violated by Security Summonses 

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  • Lebanon
  • 20/12/2023

Over the recent years, journalists in Lebanon have been victims of investigations and summonses that led to widespread backlash in media circles and society at large.

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Death sentence issued against human rights defender Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali

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  • Yemen
  • 8/12/2023

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) condemns the death sentence issued against woman human rights defender Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali based on arbitrary charges made

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Two more journalists killed by Israeli army fire

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  • Lebanon
  • 23/11/2023

With great sorrow and grief, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) received the news of the killing of two journalists in southern Lebanon who were directly targeted

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The judiciary continues to be used to target blogger Salman Al-Khalidi

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  • Kuwait
  • 21/11/2023

The State Security Criminal Court in Kuwait issued a new ruling of five more years in prison against blogger Salman Al-Khalidi as part of the ongoing

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Watch the Alternative Human Rights Expo II video

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  • MENA
  • UAE
  • 20/11/2023

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and 35 partners presented the Alternative Human Rights Expo II, an online event on 15 November 2023. The event was hosted by

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GCHR’s 30th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq

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  • Iraq
  • 9/11/2023

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has documented the human rights situation in Iraq during the past five years since the start of the popular movement, including

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On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the GCHR calls for an end to attacks and killings of journalists

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  • MENA
  • 2/11/2023

As we mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on 02 November 2023, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) mourns the deaths of over

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Women journalists under the guillotine in Iraq… media directors mastering harassment

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  • Iraq
  • 2/11/2023

An Iraqi woman journalist speaks about harassment. For more than a year, B.A., an Iraqi journalist aged 30, has been trying to heal from wounds she sustained

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Campaign to promote freedom of expression law receives boost from members of parliament

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  • Iraq
  • 31/10/2023

Iraqi human rights groups have been campaigning to increase public awareness of serious human rights violations stipulated in Iraq's Draft Law of Freedom of Expression

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