Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan use judiciary to silence voices calling for reform
The decision of the Court of Cassation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq dated 28 April 2021, to uphold the six-year prison sentences against five journalists and
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Free members of UAE94 and all prisoners of conscience
On the eighth anniversary of the verdicts in the mass trial of prominent human rights defenders, judges, academics and students known as the UAE94, the Gulf Centre for
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Actress Entisar Al-Hammadi attempts suicide and journalist Mohammed Al-Azizi attacked
On 28 June 2021, actress and model Entisar Al-Hammadi (photo on the left) was transferred to a hospital inside the Central Prison in Sana'a where she is being held after
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Two prominent women human rights defenders released
Two prominent Saudi women human rights defenders, Nassima Al-Sadah and Samar Badawi, were released from prison today, according to the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
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Tribute to Emirati woman human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is deeply saddened by the loss of courageous Emirati human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq, Executive Director of ALQST for Human
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Authorities continue to detain ten Egyptian citizens arrested in connection with Nubian symposium in July 2020
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the release of ten Egyptian citizens in Saudi Arabia who remain in prison without charge since their arrest in July
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Joint Letter to the Human Rights Council calling for an International Investigative Mission into the Beirut Blast
To the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, 17 June 2021 Excellencies, We, the undersigned Lebanese
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GCHR’s 15th periodic report on human rights violations during popular protests
This is the 15th periodic report of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) on human rights violations in Iraq. The report sheds light on the assassinations of human
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Periodic report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights on human rights violations in the Kurdistan Region
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has witnessed continuous violations in the field of human rights, in particular freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly,
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