On New Year’s Eve, two members of GCHR’s team, Nabeel Rajab and Ahmed Mansoor, face show trials while appealing prison sentences
As the New year 2019 approaches, prominent human rights defenders Nabeel Rajab and Ahmed Mansoor are going to court for the final appeals of their prison
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Prominent human rights defender Dr. Mohammad Al-Qahtani placed in solitary confinement
Update: Saudi Arabia: On 19 December 2018 Dr. Mohammed Al-Qahtani was returned from solitary confinement to the general prison population. 2018-12-22 The Gulf Centre
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Authorities continue ill-treatment of detained human rights defenders, including refusing to release those who served their full sentence
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is concerned about ongoing ill-treatment of imprisoned human rights defenders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the failure
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On international Human Rights Day, commit to these, eight specific human rights initiatives to end the human rights crisis
On 10 December 2018, international Human Rights Day, ALQST hosted a conference to assess the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia. Representatives from Amnesty
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Family of journalist Sabri Salmeen bin Makhashin calls for efforts to end his arbitrary detention
On 08 December 2018, the family of journalist Sabri Salmeen bin Makhashin, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Mohrer newspaper and the online Al-Mohrer.Net, issued a public appeal to
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Cycle continues as another online activist detained, and two other activists released
According to reliable reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Omani Human Rights Association (OHRA), the Internal Security Service (ISS) in
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On the 70th anniversary of the UDHR, GCHR calls upon governments in the Gulf and neighbouring countries to allow human rights defenders to work freely and safely
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a milestone in the history of human rights which was
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Abdolfattah Soltani released while other human rights defenders continue to suffer in prison for defending women’s rights
Photo: Abdolfattah Soltani with his family, including daughter Homa (at right), who passed away in August. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news
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CIVICUS Monitor finds civic space severely restricted in the MENA region
“People Power under Attack 2018”, a report released by CIVICUS on 27 November 2018, shows that civic space in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
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