Cybersecurity Highlights and Digital Protection for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Saudi Arabia scrutinised for its massive human rights violations
On 13 October 2020, during the 16th plenary meeting of the 75th session of United Nations General Assembly (UN GA), 16 countries including, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia
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