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Call to regulate automated content moderation during COVID-19 GCHR signs a letter with 45 organisations to social media and content-sharing platforms

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  • MENA
  • 4/05/2020

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) signed a letter addressed to social media and content-sharing platforms to regulate automated content moderation during the

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Journalist Abdulhafez Al-Samadi released

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  • Yemen
  • 4/05/2020

Early on 04 May 2020, at 1:30 in the morning, journalist Abdulhafez Al-Samadi (pictured on the left), was released in Yemen and met with all members of his family for

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World Press Freedom Day in the MENA region, between death and death sentences

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  • MENA
  • 3/05/2020

As we mark another World Press Freedom Day on 03 May 2020, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is working on cases that are examples of the extreme lack of freedom

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Freedom Forum Adds 11 Names to Journalists Memorial, including journalists killed in Iraq and Syria

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  • Iraq
  • MENA
  • Syria
  • 1/05/2020

On Monday, 04 May 2020, the Freedom Forum adds the stories of 11 men and women to its Journalists Memorial to represent all journalists who died or were killed while

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Online activists released, while human rights lawyer Hani Hussain remains detained

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  • Kuwait
  • 27/04/2020

Update: Kuwait: On 09 April 2020, the Criminal Court ordered the release of human rights lawyer Hani Hussain on a bail of 5000 Kuwaiti Dinar (approx.

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Four journalists appeal death sentence

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  • Yemen
  • 25/04/2020

On 22 April 2020, four journalists filed an appeal after being sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of spying and spreading false news. Six other journalists in the

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The Gulf Centre for Human Rights mourns the death of prominent human rights defender Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 24/04/2020

With great sadness and sorrow, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) received the news of the death of prominent Saudi human rights defender Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid, at

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Journalist Mohammed Ali Al-Maqri must be released

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  • Yemen
  • 17/04/2020

According to reliable reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), journalist Mohammed Ali Al-Maqri is suffering from deteriorating physical

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GCHR calls for human rights defender Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid, who is in a coma, to be freed

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 16/04/2020

According to local reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), prominent human rights defender Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid, 71 years old, was transferred from

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