Sign now at GCHR calls on the authorities in Saudi Arabia to:• | According to credible reports received by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights GCHR , woman human rights defender Nassima Al-Sadah was returned to solitary confinement last week in a security prison in Saudi Arabia |
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Immediately drop all charges against human rights defenders, including women and men advocating for gender equality;• Al-Sadah has been detained since her arrest on 30 July 2018 in Al-Mabahith Prison at the General Intelligence in Al-Dammam city | She was placed in solitary confinement after her arrest as well |
GCHR reminds you that the United Nations Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by consensus by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1998, recognises the legitimacy of the activities of human rights defenders, their right to freedom of association and to carry out their activities without fear of reprisals.
1The reasons are undeclared, but Saudi authorities are known to use it as a method of torture to put more pressure on women human rights defenders | |
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