Authorities must ensure detained human rights defenders and peaceful demonstrators are freed
We, the undersigned organisations, call upon the Iraqi authorities to make the utmost effort to ensure the immediate release of all detained human rights defenders,
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GCHR stands in solidarity with prominent rights defender Gamal Eid and ANHRI, amid continuous arrests in Egypt
On 10 October 2019, prominent human rights lawyer Gamal Eid, head of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), was beaten in Cairo, Egypt, as arrests of
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Two journalists and their young son gunned down in Sulaimaniya
Two journalists and their child were gunned down in their car in Iraqi Kurdistan, on 16 October 2019, according to the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR). GCHR
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Open letter to Emirati authorities to free human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor on his 50th Birthday
Your Excellency, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently announced multiple projects promoting pluralism and tolerance both at
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Deepfake poses a threat to human rights defenders in the Middle East
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses its concerns over the potential exploitation of deepfake content in targeting human rights defenders in the Middle
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On the 10th anniversary of the establishment of ACPRA, NGOs jointly call on Saudi authorities to release all detained members
On October 12, 2019, which marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), the undersigned organisations call
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Freedom of speech and assembly under attack as over 100 killed, thousands injured and hundreds arrested
The undersigned international, regional and Iraqi human rights organisations demand that the authorities in Iraq immediately uphold promises to put an end to violent
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Dozens of peaceful demonstrators killed and thousands injured as protests continue across the country
As peaceful demonstrations continued this week in the central and southern cities of Iraq, dozens of protesters have been killed, and thousands injured, many of whom are
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The government must protect the freedom to demonstrate throughout the country
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, Iraqi Network for Social Media (INSM), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), Front Line Defenders, and PEN Center in Iraq
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