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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One year after the Teachers’ Syndicate closure, ongoing violations of freedom of association
Nearly a year after the Jordanian Teachers' Syndicate (JTS) was suspended and its headquarters closed for two years, there is still a lot of abuse in the case of the
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Judiciary refuses to replace imprisonment sentences for three activists with fines
On 02 April 2020, the Amman Magistrate's Penal Court rejected for the fifth time in a row the request to replace a three-month prison sentence with a fine for three
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Journalist Hassan Al-Banna Mubarak missing after deportation by Jordanian authorities back to Egypt
Update: Jordan: Egyptian journalist Hassan Al-Banna Mubarak was released after 30 hours of detention by the National Security Bureau (Mabahith) at Cairo airport
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Mass protests result in arrests of activists of 24 March Movement
On the tenth anniversary of the 24 March sit-in, Jordanian cities witnessed a wave of widespread protests by groups identifying as the "24 March Movement", calling on
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Surveillance trends within the MENA region: Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Jordan
Download Surveillance trends within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are very diverse as not all countries are equally equipped to employ the
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Court dissolves Teachers’ Syndicate and imprisons its Council members for one year
On 31 December 2020, the Amman Magistrate's Criminal Court issued a decision to dissolve the Jordan Teachers’ Syndicate (JTS) and imprison its board members for a
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Journalist Jamal Haddad detained for publishing article on access to Covid-19 vaccine
On 24 December 2020, the Public Prosecutor of the State Security Court in Jordan issued an order to detain journalist Jamal Haddad, owner of the Al-Waqa’ai news
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Authorities must respect public freedoms, including freedom of expression and freedom of association
Despite the release of a prominent cartoonist and members of the teachers’ syndicate, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is concerned about the Jordanian
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