On 24 April 2019, Maja Kocijančič, Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations in the European External Action Service, released a statement on the execution of 37 men carried out in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday ...
On 23 April 2019, Saudi government executed 37 people who have been previously convicted for terrorism-related charges. Most of men involved in the execution were part of the Shia minority in Saudi Arabia. International Organisations have expressed deep concerns on ...
Ahmed Mansoor, an imprisoned human rights defender and blogger, has been on hunger strike since 17 March 2019 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to protest poor prison conditions and his unfair trial which led to a ten-year prison sentence ...
Husain Abu al-Khair is a 65-year-old Jordanian man. He was tortured and sentenced to death in an unfair trial by the Saudi government. Husain appealed his death sentence and is currently awaiting the verdict of his appeal. On 18 May ...
On Saturday 20 April 2019, King Hamad bin Isa Khalifa reinstated the citizenship of 551 individuals who had lost it for criminal convictions. This order applies strictly to people whose nationality was revoked by a court order. None of the ...
On 19 April 2019 Turkish authorities arrested two men from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who are suspected of spying on Arab nationals. According to the press, the two suspects then confessed. The country is investigating whether there might be ...
Based on the recent reports of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the US State Department, the European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR) intends to summarise the main human rights violations that have been occurring in the United ...
