GCHR’s 37th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has been documenting the human rights situation in Iraq over the past five years since the start of the popular uprising in
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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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Assassination of WHRD Yanar Mohammed, Emblematic Figure of the Feminist Movement, Condemned
The assassination of woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI),
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Safaa Al-Mashhadani
On 15 October 2025, a member of the Baghdad Governorate Council who is a candidate in the parliamentary elections, Safaa Al-Mashhadani, was killed and four others
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Mohammed Redha Kadhim
On 12 March 2025, journalist Laith Mohammed Redha Kadhim, 37, was killed in the Karrada district of central Baghdad by another man who lived in the same alley. Kadhim
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Shawq Al-Anzi
On 31 March 2025, security forces found the body of blogger Shawq Al-Anzi in an apartment in the Al-Adl neighbourhood of Baghdad. She had died from a blow to the head
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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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Salam Musafer (Simsim)
Salam Musafer (Simsim) was a 28-year-old transgender Iraqi blogger. Simsim was known for an active social media presence, and lived in Turkey for eight years after
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Yasser Al-Hamdani
Yasser Al-Hamdani is an Iraqi journalist who has been working in his field since 2003. He has been repeatedly targeted by security forces, facing multiple arrests and
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