Call for freedom for environmental activist and artist Mohammed Jawad Hameed
On 07 April 2026, the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science summoned prominent environmental activist and artist Mohammed Jawad Hameed.
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Mohamed Jawad Hameed is a Bahraini musician, singer and human-rights and environmental activist. As a resident of Ma’ameer, a village in the Kingdom of Bahrain that
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Mohammed Abdulmohsen Al-Mousawi
Mohammed Abdulmohsen Al-Mousawi is a Bahraini former prisoner of conscience and human rights defender known for his peaceful expression of opinions on social media in a
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The Gulf region and neighbouring countries: Ongoing repression by authorities
Introduction The Gulf region and its neighbouring countries are witnessing an unprecedented and systematic campaign of repression. The ongoing war is being used as a
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Human Rights in the Middle East Countries: 2025 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)
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The Gulf region and neighbouring countries: Authorities exercising more repression and silencing free voices, exploiting current war
Most governments in the Gulf region and neighbouring countries, exploiting the current war, are intensifying their systematic repression to suppress public freedoms,
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MPs and human rights groups urge UK Government to sanction Bahrain Interior Minister over role in torture as Bahrain marks 15th anniversary of 2011 uprising
Last week, leading human rights organisations filed a request for UK sanctions against Bahrain’s Interior Minister, General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa,
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The Safeguards Gap: Detention-Related Torture and Ill-Treatment in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain
1. Executive Summary This report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) documents recurring, detention-related patterns of torture and other ill-treatment in
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Prisoners at Jaw Prison on hunger strike, as calls mount for Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s freedom
The Gulf Centre for human rights (GCHR) expresses grave concern over the well-being of prisoners who have been hunger-striking in Bahrain’s Jaw prison. While
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