The state of human rights in Saudi Arabia
The authorities have arrested or exiled most human rights defenders, including women human rights advocates and LGBTQ+ defenders, who are arbitrarily charged, tried, arrested, subject to torture, incommunicado detention, enforced disappearances, and murder, and many have been unlawfully convicted of violating the counter-terrorism and cybercrime laws.
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Please watch the Alternative Human Rights Expo 4 to support women human rights defenders
Update: Watch the event video in English on YouTube here! The Gulf Centre for Human rights (GCHR), with the support of 27 partners held the online event,
1/12/2025 Learn More
Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi faces another 6-month extension of detention by authorities in Bulgaria
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) continues to urge the Bulgarian authorities to enforce the multiple court orders to release Saudi human rights defender
15/10/2025 Take Action
On the 5th anniversary of the arrest of 10 Egyptian Nubian citizens, a call for their immediate release
Update: on 06 September 2025, the Specialised Criminal Court of Appeal decided in an e-hearing on a reduction of between 30% to 50% of the sentences against all of the
14/07/2025 Take Action
Stop deportation of Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi from Bulgaria & address serious deterioration of his health
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is following with a great concern the dire development of the case of Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi in
27/05/2025 Take ActionLatest News & Publications from Saudi Arabia
Human Rights in the Middle East Countries: 2025 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)
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High-level abuse of power by influential figures compromises access to justice
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) reviewed another case of abuse of power by influential figures against a Saudi business investor, something that is often
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