Syria

Call for the immediate release of disappeared human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 5/05/2014

Over one and a half years after the disappearance of renowned Syrian human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq, the undersigned organizations are reiterating their call on

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On World Press Freedom Day, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights calls for the protection of the rights to freedom of speech and expression

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 3/05/2014

While this day, 3 May, World Press Freedom Day should be one of celebration of the Press and freedom of speech, the GCHR is reminded of the severe curtailment on the

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Syrian authorities must reveal the whereabouts of human rights defender Abdulhadi Sheikh Awad

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 8/04/2014

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) call on the Syrian authorities to disclose the whereabouts of human

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Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer presented with terrorism charges over two years after their arrest

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 26/03/2014

On 24 March 2014, Director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM),  Mazen Darwish and his SCM colleagues, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein

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Free Key Rights Defenders / Government Arbitrarily Holds Darwish, Colleagues Despite UN Demands

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 17/03/2014

(Geneva, March 17, 2014) – The government of Syria should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his

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On the second anniversary of the arrest of Mazen Darwish the human rights situation remains critical as two more human rights defenders are targeted

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 20/02/2014

16 February 2014 marked the two-year anniversary of the arbitrary arrest of prominent human rights defender Mazen Darwish.  Despite the international reaction and

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Syria- Ongoing arbitrary detention of human rights defender Abdulhadi Sheikh Awad

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 18/12/2013

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights network (EMHRN) and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) express their deep concern following the arbitrary detention of

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Syria- Freedom for prominent human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh and three colleagues abducted in Douma

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 10/12/2013

On the evening of 9 November 2013, an armed group raided the offices of Local Development and Small Projects Support Office ( LDSPS) and the Violations Documentation

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Urgent appeal for the release of prisoners of conscience and all detainees in Syria

  • Syria
  • Syria
  • 26/11/2013

The undersigned organizations express their utmost concerns as for the fate of tens of thousands of detainees in Syria and urge all parties to guarantee in all

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