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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Nazila Maroofian
Nazila Maroufian is a Kurdish Iranian journalist from Saqqez who rose to prominence after publishing an interview on 14 October 2022 with Amjad Amini, the father of
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Sarvenaz Ahmadi
Sarvenaz Ahmadi is an Iranian journalist and social worker who was arrested on 06 November 2022 alongside her husband, journalist Kamyar Fakour, following a raid on
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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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Laya Jabik
Laya Jabik is an Iranian woman human rights defender, academic and architect who has been actively engaged in peaceful advocacy for civil liberties and human rights in
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Marzieh Moradveisi
Marzieh Moradveisi is an Iranian women’s rights defender and civil society activist from Sanandaj, Iran, with a long history of peaceful activism advocating for
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Sara Hosseinzadeh
Sara Hosseinzadeh, an Iranian woman human rights defender, translator and former political prisoner, has been associated with the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement
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Hasti Amiri
Hasti Amiri is an Iranian human rights defender, student activist and graduate law student at Allameh Tabataba’i University. She has been engaged for years in
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Pooran Nazemi
Pooran Nazemi, an Iranian human rights defender, civil rights activist and long-standing advocate for women, children and families seeking justice, has been engaged in
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