Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

She is sentenced to a total of three years and one month in prison, on a variety of charges including two sentences for ripping a picture of Bahrain’s monarch and one year in prison for allegedly “insulting” a police officer.

“Across the region, women pay a heavy price for exercising their rights, especially when they dare to demand women’s rights in some of the world’s most repressive countries.”

Ten regional and international human rights organisations call on the government of the United Arab Emirates to release immediately and unconditionally all those imprisoned solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly as a result of this unfair trial.

Atena Daemi was released on 15 February, after serving 16 months of her 14-year sentence in Evin prison.

Over 40 human rights groups and more than 75 international cartoonists are calling for leniency for Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently wrongfully jailed.

Civil society groups express concern over the potential for overbroad anti-extremism practices to limit free expression

The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association was established in 2009 to promote civil and political rights and to respond to increased arrests following the second Gulf war. The Saudi government, intent on shutting it down, has been systematically targeting members.

IFEX members call on the Government of Bahrain to stop the judicial harassment of Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, and to allow human rights defenders to exercise their right to freedom of expression.