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Platform Compliance in the Middle East: How Opaque Content Moderation Enables Quiet Authoritarian Censorship
Across the MENA region, particularly in the Gulf, political speech increasingly disappears from major platforms [...]
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Saudi Arabia Reports United Arab Emirates Yemen
Arab Gulf States at odds: The UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Following developments in Yemen which saw the Southern Transitional Council (STC) seizing power across the [...]
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Saudi Arabia Briefing Papers Reports
Women Human Rights Defenders Systematically Tortured in Saudi Prisons
Introduction Since 2019, Saudi Arabia has promoted a narrative of national reforms under Crown Prince [...]
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Munasaha Law: How the UAE has used Anti-Terrorism Laws to keep Outspoken Citizens in Indefinite Detention
With the recent death of political prisoner Ali Abdullah Fath Ali al-Khaja on the 19th [...]
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The Gulf’s Smart City Future is Built on Total Surveillance
Across the Gulf, governments are racing to reinvent themselves as hyper-efficient “smart cities”, supported by [...]
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Munasaha Law: How the UAE has used Anti-Terrorism Laws to keep Outspoken Citizens in Indefinite Detention
With the recent death of political prisoner Ali Abdullah Fath Ali al-Khaja on the 19th [...]
Jan
Still Behind Bars: The Case of Mohammed al-Bejadi and Saudi Arabia’s Expanding Machinery of Repression
In Saudi Arabia, repression rarely ends when a prison sentence does. The case of Mohammed [...]
Nov
ECDHR Internship Availabilities
Advocacy Internships – Remote (Full-Time, Six Months)European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR) The [...]
Legal Discrimination in Saudi Arabia: The Persistent Grip of Male Guardianship
Women continue to be subjected to legal and societal discrimination in Saudi Arabia as well [...]
Dec
International Day of Conscience
A short infography for the international day of conscience, April 5th.
Apr
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: EU-Gulf Energy Partnership Risks Overshadowing Human Rights
By ECDHR Staff, 31st March 2022 On March 22nd, the European Committee on Foreign Affairs [...]
Mar
PRESS RELEASE : MEPs sign a letter expressing their grave concern over serious human rights violations in Bahrain
20 December 2021 – 12 Members of the European Parliament signed a Joint Letter to [...]
Dec
Civil Society Groups Seek Urgent UN Action on Yemen
More Than 60 Groups Urge General Assembly to Establish New Investigative Mechanism December 3, 2021 – The [...]
Dec
PRESS RELEASE: Joint NGO Letter to Formula 1 on the Saudi Arabia and UAE Grand Prix
2 December 2021 – A group of 16 NGOs signed a Joint Letter to Stefano [...]
Dec
Letter to the Kuwaiti Emir
In a letter addressing the H.E. Kuwaiti Ambassador Jasem M. Albudaiwi, 24 EU [...]
Sep