Human Rights in the Gulf Region and Neighbouring Countries: 2022 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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Writer Mona Kareem deported from Kuwait International Airport after arriving to visit her family
The Kuwaiti authorities arbitrarily deported a writer and activist who defends the rights of the Bedoon (stateless) community, 35-year-old Dr. Mona Kareem, upon her
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Four Bedoon human rights defenders must be released
Update: Kuwait: On 15 September 2022, a judge in the Magistrate's Court decided to release human rights defenders Mohammed Barghash Odeh, Fadel Farhan Saket, Basil
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Human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli summoned for third time this month
Update: Kuwait: On 01 September 2022, the Misdemeanours Court acquitted prominent human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli, general coordinator of the Kuwaiti
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GCHR announces its full solidarity with writer, blogger and prominent activist Anwar Al-Rasheed
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) declares its full solidarity with writer, blogger and prominent activist Anwar Al-Rasheed, who is being targeted in Kuwait due to
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INTERPOL announces that blogger Mesaed Al-Musaileem is not facing any legal action
In a positive development, the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) officially announced that Kuwaiti blogger Mesaed Al-Musaileem, who is currently
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Bedoon rights defenders end their hunger strike
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news that defenders of the rights of the Bedoon community in Kuwait ended their two-week hunger strike after it had
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Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina must grant blogger Mesaed Al-Musaileem right to move to safe third country
On 21 February 2022, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued its verdict rejecting the appeal submitted by the lawyer of blogger Mesaed Al-Musaileem, in which
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Defenders of the Bedoon community organise hunger strike to demand their rights
On 28 March 2022, at four o'clock in the afternoon, six defenders of the rights of the Bedoon community in Kuwait began an open-ended hunger strike in the Sulaibiya area
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