Human Rights in the Gulf Region and Neighbouring Countries: 2021 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
I.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
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The other impact of COVID-19: Heightened Surveillance and Tracking in Gulf & Neighbouring Countries
This report is a production of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and was written by Ghina Ghanem. The author would like to thank the project lead and report
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The other impact of COVID-19: Heightened Surveillance and Tracking in Gulf & Neighbouring Countries
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic governance in eight Gulf and neighbouring countries: Bahrain, Iran, Jordan,
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Who will be Left to Defend Human Rights? Persecution of Online Expression in the Gulf and Neighbouring Countries
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Human Right Defenders (HRDs) in the Gulf region and neighbouring countries face an increasingly hostile environment for exercising freedom of
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Feminist activists and WHRDs remain in limbo between misogynist state and international community inaction
The human rights situation in Iran has increasingly become a concern to all human rights organisations and communities around the world, particularly the violations of
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Prominent human rights defender and writer Emadeddin Baghi, whose house was raided, banned from travel
Human rights defender, lawyer and writer Emadeddin Baghi, an advisory board member of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), remains banned from travel after more than
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Appeal to the authorities to #FreeNasrin Sotoudeh and all human rights defenders
Update: Iran: Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily released for medical leave on 07 November 2020. Then on 02 December
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Nasrin Sotoudeh returned to prison on eve of Right Livelihood award
05 December 2020 The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is appalled to learn that prominent Iranian women’s rights defender and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was returned
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WHRD Narges Mohammadi remains at risk of COVID-19 despite the authorities’ reports, and must be freed
Update: Iran: WHRD Narges Mohammadi, 48, was released from prison at 3am on 08 October 2020 after a 10-year sentence was commuted due to health concerns. She was in
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