Reports
- 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
- International Mission to Bahrain Report / Justice Denied in Bahrain: Freedom of Expression and Assembly Curtailed
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
News from Kuwait
Kuwait- Arrest and detention of human rights defender Sulaiman Binjassim and excessive use of force by police at protest
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information of excessive use of force by the police and the arrest and detention of human rights defender Sulaiman Binjasssim during a protest in the…
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Kuwait- Human rights defender Abdullah Fairouz detained on charges of insulting the judiciary, released on bail
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the release of human rights defender Abdulla Fairouz on bail on 14 April 2013 following his arrest five days earlier on charges of insulting the judiciary…
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Kuwait- Prominent human rights lawyer Mohammed Al-Fadhli sentenced to a month in prison
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received information that on 13 March 2013, prominent human rights lawyer Mohammed Al-Fadhli was sentenced in abstentia to a suspended one month in prison.…
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Kuwait- Journalist Zayed Al-Zaid imprisoned over article tackling corruption
On 27 February 2013, security forces in Kuwait arrested publisher and managing editor of "Alaan" electronic newspaper, Zayed Al-Zaid, after he arrived at Kuwait International Airport from Washington.…
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Kuwait- Human Rights Defenders Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli on Hunger Strike in Protest at His imprisonment
The Gulf Centre for Human rights (GCHR) has learned that human rights defender Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli began a hunger strike at 7p.m. on 16 January 2013 to protest "the injustice and the charges…
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Kuwait- Arrest and detention of human rights defenders Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli, Abdulnasser Al-Fadhli and Abdullah Ghanim
On 13 December 2012 protestors gathered in Taimaa square near Kuwait city, calling for the release of Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli and his brother Abdulnasser Al-Fadhli who were arrested in recent days for their…
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