Reports
- Threats and Attacks Plague Yemen's Brave Human Rights Defenders
- TRIAL OBSERVATION REPORT: Case Number 17/2013 “THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 94” / March 2013
- The GCHR 2013 Annual Report / Attacks on Human Rights Defenders Continue
- European Resolution on the UAE: "Biased and Prejudiced?" / Mission to UAE investigates crackdown on free expression in which 64activists have been detained
- Bahrain: The government continues to attack journalists and target press freedom
News from International Organizations
- UAE: Cameron Should Press Rulers on Torture
- Report on Bahrain’s Attorney General Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al - Buainain and his position in the International Association of Prosecutors
- Ceartas submits complaint to Int’l Association of Prosecutors urging expulsion of Bahrain Attorney General
- Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring met the Tunisian Minister of Human Rights
- Bahraini rights defender denied the right to a fair trial
Written by HRDs and Journalists
Call for Action
Take Action Now : UAE - Prominent human rights lawyer Dr. Mohammad Al-Roken describes violations committed by authorities against UAE94 in prison
The internationally renowned human rights lawyer, Dr. Mohammed Al-Roken, talked, in a letter sent to his family, about human rights violations committed by the authorities against him in addition…
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Take Action Now : Saudi Arabia - Human rights defender Dr. Abdulkarim Al-Khodr detained for four months before fourth session of his trial starts
On April 24, 2013, while human rights defender Dr. Abdulkarim Al-Khodr and his lawyer Abdulaziz Al-Shubaily were trying to enter the courtroom of the Criminal Court in Buraidah to attend the fourth hearing…
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Take Action Now : Saudi Arabia - The authorities imprison prominent human rights defenders Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr Mohammed Al-Qahtani and dissolve the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA)
On 9 March 2013 the eleventh hearing of the trial of Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr Mohammed Al Qahtani, the co-founders of the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), was held at the Criminal…
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Take Action Now : Saudi Arabia - Human rights defenders face judicial harassment after they become targets of the authorities
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights received information confirming that the Saudi authorities continue to target human rights defenders through imprisonment and judicial harassment. Detained human rights…
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Take Action Now : Urgent Action: UAE- Number of human rights defenders & activists in detention reaches 77 as brutal crackdown continues
The numbers of those detained in the UAE as a result of their human rights activities has reached 77 following the arrests of four Egyptian activists. On 14 December 2012 an Egyptian journalist was arrested…
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Take Action Now : Saudi Arabia- Human rights defender Raef Badawi at risk of execution on charges of apostasy
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information that human rights defender Raef Badawi is at risk of execution. Raef Badawi is co-founder and editor of the Liberal Saudi Network, which…
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