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Exclusive: Imprisoned British businessman Ryan Cornelius has appealed to the Foreign Office for help after his Dubai jailers tried to force him to sign a document claiming his human rights were ...
According to Human Rights Watch annual report 2016, Emirates authorities forcibly disappeared and detained people who criticised the government or its allies. In February 2015, Human Rights Watch documented a case in which three Emirati sisters, Asma, Mariam, and Al Yazzyah al-Suweidi, were forcibly disappeared by Emirates authorities.
A mass trial of dissidents in the United Arab Emirates sentenced 43 people to life in prison on Wednesday while several other defendants received long prison terms in a case that has been widely ...
Human rights organizations have expressed concern about violation of human rights in Dubai. [2] Most notably, some of the 250,000 foreign laborers in the city allegedly live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as "less than humane". [3] [4] [5] The mistreatment of foreign workers was a subject of the 2009 documentary, Slaves of Dubai. [6]
The state security apparatus in the UAE has been accused of human rights abuses including forced disappearance, arbitrary arrests and torture. [200] The annual Freedom House report on Freedom in the World has listed the United Arab Emirates as "Not Free" every year since 1999, the first year for which records are available on their website. [125]
People’s rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective government outrage about some abuses and silence about others because of “political ...
The organization also coined the name "The UAE Five" to refer to the men, which was later adopted by some media sources. [5] Human Rights Watch condemned the trial as "an attack on free expression", [10] and Front Line Defenders, the Index on Censorship, and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information also called for the men's release. [10]
More than 200 civil society groups have written to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), host of this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit, and all participating governments with a series of demands ...