On International Human Rights Day, a dangerous escalation against human rights defenders and activists in Iraq
Update: Iraq: On 17 December 2019, human rights defenders, Salman Khairallah Al-Mansoori and Omar Khadum Al-A’mri have been released from prison. Also, on 13
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Ahmed Mansoor remains at imminent risk following repeated hunger strikes in isolation cell
On 15 December 2019, prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, a member of the Advisory Board of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), marked 1000 days
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Photojournalists and civil society activists among victims in targeted attacks by militants
Update: Iraq: On 12 December 2019 photojournalist Zaid Al-Khafaji has been released from prison in Baghdad. 2019-12-09 As protests continue in Iraq, three
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On International Human Rights Day, GCHR calls for freedom of expression and assembly to be respected not restricted
As we mark International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2019, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) renews call to honour the work of human rights defenders who risk
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Razan Zaitouneh and her colleagues still forcibly disappeared after six years
Today, 09 December 2019, marks the occasion of the disappearance of Syrian woman human rights defender Razan Zaitouneh with her
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Al-Sharea newspaper confiscated in Taiz after distributors arrested
The suffering of journalists and media institutions continues in Yemen where it is very difficult to work when the war is still raging. In the latest attack on media
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During its meeting in Berlin, tasks were distributed among the founding members of the MENA Network for Countering Hate Speech
(Berlin)- On 26th November 2019, on the sidelines of the 14th Internet Governance Forum held in Berlin from 25 to 29 of the same month, the founding body of the MENA
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In an age of cosmetic reform, a new wave of arrests of journalists
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is alarmed at reports of the arrest of ten Saudi activists in the span of only six days. Between 16 and 21 November 2019,
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Authorities must immediately end the use of lethal force against protesters and stop targeting activists, journalists and the media
We, the undersigned human rights organisations, call on the Iraqi government to immediately cease the use of lethal and excessive force against protesters. As peaceful
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