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 ...
The country of Oman, along with other GCC neighbouring countries, shares its responsibility on the common repressive stream towards opposition groups and civil society’s activists. Freedom of speech is non-existent and the constant persecuting reprisals affect both human rights defenders ...
The United Arab Emirates is a federal state composed of seven different emirates, including Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The UAE nationals represent 11.5% of the population consisting of 8.5 million people. The country in recent decades has seen a huge ...
28th of November 2018 – The Supreme Court of Bahrain this Monday upheld a life sentence given to Shia opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman over charges of spying for neighboring country Qatar. On November 4th 2018, leading figure of the Bahraini opposition Ali Salman and ...
On 24 November 2018, Bahrain held elections for the 40 seats of the lower house of parliament. As expected, these elections occurred with severe restrictions placed on civil and political society by the Bahraini government. The European Centre for Democracy ...
**Update 11 June 2018 – Today, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain confirmed the amendment to Law No. 14 relating to political exclusion. The amendment will soon be published in the Official Gazette. 31 May 2018 – The National ...
23 February 2018 – This year, Bahrain will hold the elections for the National Assembly – the second to take place in Bahrain since more than 200,000 people took the streets in February 2011 to demand more openness in the ...
