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Human rights lawyer Abeer Al-Haddad faces threats due to her ongoing defense of Bedoon rights

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  • Kuwait
  • 20/08/2018

According to reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), human rights lawyer Abeer Al-Haddad has received a large number of threats due to a recent

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Human rights defender Kamal Al-Shawish of Mwatana detained by Houthis in Hodeidah

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  • Yemen
  • 17/08/2018

On 14 August 2018, two armed men belonging to the armed group Ansar Allah (Houthis) arrested human rights defender Kamal Al-Shawish in a coffee shop on Sana'a Street in

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Free prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh

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  • Iran
  • 15/08/2018

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the immediate release of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, as we believe that her arrest and

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End threats directed against journalist Ahmad Al-Shaibani

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  • Iraq
  • 3/08/2018

On July 20, 2018, at 11:12 am, journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Al-Shaibani received a death threat by text message from an unknown number. Around the same

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Arrest of women human rights defenders Samar Badawi and Nassima Al-Sadah

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  • Saudi Arabia
  • 1/08/2018

Reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) confirm that on 30 July 2018 security forces arrested two women human rights defenders, Samar Badawi and

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Arbitrary dismissal of journalist for expressing his opinion on social media

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  • Iraq
  • 28/07/2018

PEN International and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GC4HR) condemn the dismissal of journalist Ahmad Abdulhusain from his work at the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) which

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Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) v Prime Minister and anr. / The GCHR seeks to shore up UK Ministers’ obligations to comply with International Law.

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  • MENA
  • 27/07/2018

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), represented by Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors and 11 Kings Bench Walk, appeared in the High Court in London on 26 July 2018 to

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In advance of Yemen’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN in 2019, GCHR joins partners in joint submissions about violations affecting human rights defenders

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  • Yemen
  • 24/07/2018

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) joined partners in two joint submissions on Yemen’s human rights record in advance of its next Universal Periodic Review

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Protect the right to peaceful demonstration, release all detained demonstrators and reopen access to the Internet / Assassination of human rights lawyer Jabbar Mohammed Al-Karm in Basra

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  • Iraq
  • 24/07/2018

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received reliable reports confirming that Iraqi authorities have used disproportionate force against peaceful demonstrators

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