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No to Impunity

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  • MENA
  • 2/11/2020

A report published by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights to mark the International Day to End Impunity 02 November 2020 Murders & other serious violations continue

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Cybersecurity Highlights and Digital Protection for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists

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  • MENA
  • 30/10/2020

On 26 October 2020, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) held an online event for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Relying on digital communication and devices to stay

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Campaign continues of arbitrary arrests carried out by local authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan

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  • Iraqi Kurdistan
  • 26/10/2020

Since August 2020, local authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have continued targeting various activists, arresting them, and curtailing public freedoms, including media

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The voices and words of those imprisoned will not be silenced

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  • MENA
  • UAE
  • 26/10/2020

On 22 October 2020, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and Amnesty Westminster Bayswater held an online event, The Prisoner and the Pen, to feature the

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Journalist freed after a month in captivity, while others continue to suffer in prison

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  • Yemen
  • 21/10/2020

Update: Yemen: On October 19, 2020, journalist Mohammed Ali Al-Maqri was released from the Political Security prison in Ma’rib, and his first question was about

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Ahmed Mansoor and other prominent human rights defenders should be released

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  • UAE
  • 21/10/2020

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) remains concerned about the fate of human rights defenders and other activists imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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GCHR activities during UN Human Rights Council’s 45th session

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  • MENA
  • 20/10/2020

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) was involved in various activities during the 45th session of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva,

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GCHR calls on UK Foreign Secretary to hold UAE to account after UK citizen alleges sexual assalut by UAE Minister for Tolerance

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  • UAE
  • 19/10/2020

PRESS RELEASE The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) today called on the UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, to hold the United Arab Emirates to account after UK

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Five journalists finally released six months after judge’s order, while four others still facing execution

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  • Yemen
  • 16/10/2020

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news that on 15 October 2020, five imprisoned Yemeni journalists, Hisham Ahmed Tarmoom, Hisham Abdulmalik

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