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The Shuhuh case in Oman Since 2015, the Omani government has been holding a number of...

International Day of Democracy 15 September                               The UN’s International Day of Democracy, held on September 15 each year, provides...

Have you ever had a call from the security services asking you – without any legal formalities – to...

What is “statelessness”? In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as...

Following a number of complaints, and having carried out its own investigations, the Omani Centre for Human Rights (OCHR) has established as a fact...

The challenge is not just that Middle Eastern societies spurn members of the community who decide to embrace another religion, or...

Peaceful assembly, including peaceful protest, is one of the most important ways of expressing an opinion.  The right to...

In Oman there is one official newspaper published in Arabic, the daily Oman, and a...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) defines discrimination against women as:

The Muscat International Book Fair has once again seen numerous books banned and impounded – most...