Seventy years after the promulgation of the Personal Status Code, a victory for Tunisian women who have long struggled for and cherished it, they now face the dilemmas of gender-based violence, impris...

Protests were held in Syria in which demonstrators condemned the enforced disappearance of two journalists and the prevention of a large number of students from taking their exams. A protest against e...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is following with concern the aggressive response of the Saudi authorities, in particular, the Presidency of State Security, to the online demands for economic ...

The new Syrian government faces serious and significant challenges and real tests in the field of human rights, amidst local and international demands urging the authorities to refrain from reproducin...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news that Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi was released from detention in Bulgaria. On 21 August 2026, the Bulgarian Migration Di...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has been documenting a concerning rise in repression across the MENA countries amid the ongoing crisis including massive human rights violations and war.…

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has recently received an alarming testimony from a Kuwaiti woman detainee, that was reminiscent of a similar complaint by opposition figure and well-known onlin...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has followed the termination of the employment contracts of 24 Palestinian journalists and media professionals by Al-Jazeera channel. The journalists were offer...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has been documenting a concerning rise in repression across the MENA countries amid the ongoing crisis including massive human rights violations and war. Kuwait...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has received credible information confirming the release of human rights defender Israa Al-Ghomgham in Saudi Arabia. On 06 August 2026, authorities released Al-...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) carried out advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders (HRDs) at the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, which was held...

In a continuation of their systematic policy of repression, Kuwaiti authorities are mobilising all available resources and tools to silence prominent blogger Mansoor Al-Muhareb, who through his peacef...

Executive Summary This report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) documents how transnational repression linked to States in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) restricts and endangers the ...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is following with concern the referral of Saudi citizens to investigations by the Saudi authorities for posting online their criticism of unfair selection of fo...

The authorities in Bahrain exploited the war that erupted in late February 2026 to launch a wide-ranging and ongoing series of human rights violations, dragging the country back to a dark past charact...

The local government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq continues to commit serious violations of the civil and human rights of citizens, including civil society activists, journalists, and protesters. T...

Mohammed Jawad Hameed, a prominent human rights and environmental activist who is also a musician and singer, remains in prison two months after his arrest for posting on social media his shock and gr...

On 01 June 2026, the new Cybercrime Law 61/2026 was issued, following its ratification by Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman. It became effective from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette...

Former detainee Abdullah Al-Shamsi faces widespread violations of his civil and human rights, which the authorities in Oman have insisted on committing since 2021, the year he was released from prison...

The undersigned organisations condemn Meta’s recent decision to restrict the Facebook and Instagram accounts of independent NGOs, researchers, and civil society figures from reaching audiences in Saud...

On 04 May 2026, the authorities announced the revocation of Kuwaiti nationality from citizen Nayef Rakhees Dhahi Al-Fadhli, 70, the father of exiled political opponent Fawaz Al-Kathiri, along with sev...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses its deep concern about the systematic repressive policies pursued by the authorities in Qatar against citizens, including various activists, who…

On 02 February 2026, the Deanship of Student Affairs at the University of Jordan announced that the University Council, without consulting the Student Union or other student groups, had made forced changes to the Union’s bylaws. These amendments included Article 3 of the bylaws, which granted deans of faculties, after consulting with the Dean of […]