Exploiting the Wartime Context: Patterns of Repression in the Gulf Region and Neighbouring Countries
A new report by @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social covers restrictive and coercive measures in #Bahrain #Iran #Iraq #Jordan #Kuwait #Qatar #SaudiArabia #UAE during the regional war
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#Kuwait: Revised nationality legislation violates basic human rights requirements
An estimated 70,000 Kuwaitis have lost their nationality; adding to an existing stateless Bedoon population of over 90,000
Read the new report by @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social online here: gc4hr.org/revised-nati...

#Tunisia: Authorities deepen democratic backsliding by targeting women’s voices
70 years after the promulgation of the Personal Status Code, Tunisian women now face the dilemmas of gender-based violence, imprisonment, arrests and political exclusion
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Join @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social Salam NASI MENA Rights Group @amnesty.org on 16 September at 14h in Rm XI at the #UNHRC to discuss #Kuwait 70K people stripped of citizenship. A joint report will be launched. All are welcome

#Kuwait: Revised nationality law severely impacts human rights
@gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social has been following with great concern the severe implications of the withdrawal and revocation of nationality in Kuwait since 2024
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#Kuwait: Court of Cassation issues prison sentences for large number of MPs
On 5 September 2026, a judge sentenced, convicted and suspended sentences against a group of former members of the National Assembly as well as a number of activists and bloggers
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#UAE: Poet Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi released by presidential pardon
@gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social welcomes the news of the release of poet Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi by a presidential pardon in the United Arab of Emirates (UAE)
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#Bahrain has been jailing a Danish & a Swedish human rights defender for 15 years - among many others.

Despite that, the EU picked Bahrain as the first Gulf country to upgrade its partnership with.

There should be no progress without their release: hrw.org/news/2026/09...

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#Syria: Popular protests against human rights violations held in the country
Protests were held in Syria in which demonstrators condemned the enforced disappearance of two journalists and the prevention of a large number of students from taking their exams
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#Saudi Arabia: Retired Saudi soldier summoned and threatened for posting online request for financial help
@gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social is following with concern the aggressive response of the Saudi authorities to online demands for economic rights
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