Authorities continue their systematic and totalitarian repression
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities continue their gross violations of the civil and human rights of citizens, residents, migrant workers and refugees. A
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Hamad Al-Shamsi
Hamad Al-Shamsi is an Emirati human rights defender and Executive Director of the Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center (EDAC). While living in exile, Al-Shamsi was
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Supreme Court upholds sentences of those convicted in UAE84 case, including GCHR’s Board member Ahmed Mansoor
During a hearing on 04 March 2025, the State Security Department of the Federal Supreme Court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rejected the appeals submitted by 53
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Abdulrahman Al-Nahhas
Abdulrahman Al-Nahhas is a Syrian human rights defender currently imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for his work in the field of human rights activism.
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Urgent appeal to end the enforced disappearance of poet Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and calling for his release
To: Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
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We stand in solidarity with imprisoned women human rights defenders during the 16 Days of Activism
In honour of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, marked every year on 29 November 2024, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) would like to highlight the
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Call to stop hosting Conference of Parties (COP) annual climate summits in authoritarian countries
Open letter to the secretariat for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bonn, Germany 13 August 2024 Re: Call to stop hosting Conference of
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UAE84 trial is a mockery of justice
Human rights defenders and political dissidents must be freed The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s mass trial of 84 human rights defenders and political dissidents was
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Court sentences 57 Bangladeshi residents to prison for demonstrating
Update: On 03 September 2024, the Federal Public Prosecution announced on its Facebook page that the President of the State had pardoned 57 Bangladeshi citizens,
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