Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

Rights groups call on the Dakar Rally community to urge Saudi authorities to release imprisoned activists who peacefully campaigned for women’s rights in the kingdom, including the right to drive.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights calls on the UN to help protect Gamal Eid, director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and prominent activist, after he was attacked by security forces yet again.

GCHR says peaceful protesters, civil society activists and human rights defenders in Iraq are increasingly being kidnapped, tortured and assassinated for their participation in ongoing anti-government protests.

GCHR reiterates calls on Emirati authorities to release human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, whose health has deteriorated from repeated hunger strikes protesting his appalling prison conditions.

At least 4,000 people have been arrested during ongoing protests in Iran, as the death toll surpasses 140, and Internet access remains sporadic.

Rights groups and leading intellectuals call for the immediate release of prominent human rights defender Dr. Mohammed Al-Roken, arbitrarily detained since 2012.

18 NGOs have called for immediate actions at the conclusion of an event in Beirut entitled “No to impunity for the crimes committed against journalists in the Arab region.”

As the death toll climbs, rights groups call on Iraqi authorities to cease the use of excessive force, and uphold the peoples’ right to peacefully demonstrate.