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Buthaina Ahmad Mahmoud, a 54-year-old Omani woman who lived in Bahrain with her husband and children, has been deported to Oman, where she has nowhere to live and no means of…
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The Omani Centre for Human Rights has been following with concern the case of Sultan Ambusaidi, an Omani citizen who last week published a video on Instagram in which he…
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Environmental activist Ahmed Issa Qutn, arrested for comments on Twitter criticising a regional policy decision, is to face trial on 8 March, the Omani Centre for Human Rights…
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On Sunday, 14 June 2020 a number of unemployed university graduates staged protests outside the Ministry of the Diwan of the Royal Court and also at the Ministry of…
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UPDATE: Latest human rights news on Oman from the Omani Centre for Human Rights Awadh al-Sawafi goes on trial for tweets We have just heard (9 June) that former prisoner of…
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The 2020 Muscat International Book Fair, now in its 25th edition, has once again seen many books by Omani writers seized and banned. Nearly 50 titles in literature,…
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The Omani Centre for Human Rights condemns the Omani security authorities’ intimidation of Omani activists within the country and the relatives of activists and dissidents…
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The Omani Centre for Human Rights condemns the arrest of Omani writer Musallam Masoud al-Mashani on Thursday, 14 November 2019 in connection with his as yet unpublished new…
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Following a number of complaints, and having carried out its own investigations, the Omani Centre for Human Rights (OCHR) has established as a fact that two psychiatric hospitals…
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The Muscat International Book Fair has once again seen numerous books banned and impounded – most of them, and the most significant of them, by Omani authors. As far as we…
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