GIDHR marks Nelson Mandela Day and urge Gulf authorities to release and honor their prisoners of conscience

The world celebrates on July 18 of every year the international day of the prominent ...

HRW: After Nabeel Rajab, Time for UAE to Free Ahmed Mansoor

On June 9, Bahrain finally allowed prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to serve the remainder of ...

United Arab Emirates: Open letter to the Emirati authorities to free human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor on his 50th Birthday

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently announced multiple projects promoting pluralism and tolerance both ...

Reuters: U.N. says UAE activist Mansoor’s prison conditions “may constitute torture”

Prominent United Arab Emirates (UAE) pro-democracy campaigner Ahmed Mansoor may be suffering treatment amounting to ...

HRW: UAE: Cancer-Stricken Female Prisoner Dies

A 42-year-old woman whom United Arab Emirates security forces denied adequate medical care and mistreated for more ...

Amnesty: UAE: Ahmed Mansoor enters fourth week of hunger strike to protest unfair 10-year sentence

Responding to confirmed reports that prominent Emirati human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, has been on ...

GIDHR is preparing to launch a campaign to stop selling Australian arms to Saudi Arabia & UAE

A delegation of the Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (GIDHR) met the MP ...

HRW: UAE: Release Imprisoned Jordanian Journalist

The United Arab Emirates should immediately release Tayseer al-Najjar, a Jordanian journalist who, on December 13, 2018, ...

HRW: UAE: Award-Winning Activist Jailed For 10 Years

The UAE should immediately release Ahmed Mansoor, an award-winning human rights activist, and vacate the ...

Amnesty: UAE: Activist Ahmed Mansoor sentenced to 10 years in prison for social media posts

The jailing of a prominent human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for ...