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Award given to Bahraini Prime Minister in Norway criticised for rewarding perpetrator of human rights violations

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  • Bahrain
  • 13/09/2019

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and partners are dismayed by reports that the Prime Minister of Bahrain, Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa, received an

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GCHR and ALQST submission to UK media freedom inquiry addresses threats to journalists, rights defenders and online activists across the Middle East

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  • MENA
  • 9/09/2019

In August, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and ALQST made a submission to the United Kingdom Foreign Affairs Committee, in response to a call for

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Prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab faces ill-treatment

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  • Bahrain
  • 8/09/2019

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is deeply concerned that prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab is not being treated according to international standards

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Civil activist Mohammad Khadhum Al-Iraqi arrested after criticising government official on Facebook

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  • Iraq
  • 7/09/2019

On 05 September 2019, authorities in the province of Al-Muthanna in Iraq arrested and detained civil activist and blogger Mohammad Khadum Al-Iraqi over a Facebook post,

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A dozen journalists threatened online, while others attacked at government press conference

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  • Iraq
  • 4/09/2019

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received a list of names of Iraqi journalists, bloggers and writers who have been subjected to a campaign of defamation by

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Letter to H.E Prime Minister of Norway about awarding Bahrain an honorary award

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  • Bahrain
  • 2/09/2019

To: H.E Erna Solberg Prime Minister of Norway The Office of the Prime MinisterOslo, Norway 2 September 2019 Your Excellency, Norway has been at

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Journalists forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained by all parties to the conflict

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  • Yemen
  • 29/08/2019

Journalists in Yemen face great difficulties as they carry out their work professionally, including being subjected to all forms of repression, such as arbitrary arrest

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Fifteen Bedoon activists on hunger strike in the Public Prison

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  • Kuwait
  • 24/08/2019

According to reliable reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), 15 activists from the Bedoon community currently detained in Kuwait’s Public

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Over 75 organisations call for mandate of Group of Eminent Experts to be renewed, emphasising violations against human rights defenders

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  • Yemen
  • 20/08/2019

We, the undersigned more than 75 international, regional and Yemeni CSOs, call for the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to extend and broaden the mandate of the

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