Torture and Abuse in Prisons in the United Arab Emirates
Download This report details the torture and abuse of prisoners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), focusing on prisoners from a group of 94 human rights defenders
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GCHR report documents failure to investigate abuse and torture in Emirati prisons
12 March 2015 – A government inquiry into the torture and abuse of political prisoners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is long overdue, says a new report
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#CollateralFreedom United Arab Emirates to get access to censored Gulf Centre for Human Rights website
To mark World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (12 March 2015), Reporters Without Borders is launching “Operation Collateral Freedom” to unblock nine censored websites
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Stop the charade and release activists convicted at the mass UAE 94 trial
On the second anniversary of the start of the mass “UAE 94” trial that imprisoned dozens of government critics and reform activists in the United Arab Emirates
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Sisters of imprisoned UAE94 activist subjected to enforced disappearance as State Security Apparatus continues to violate human rights
Update: Asma Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, Maryam Khalifa Al-Suwaidi and Alyaziyah Khalifa Al-Suwaidi have been released on 15 May 2015, after spending three months in
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GCHR website blocked in UAE
The website of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has been blocked in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to local human rights defender Ahmed
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Fear that Anti-Terrorism Law will be used to curtail human rights and target human rights defenders
A coalition of international NGOs is seriously concerned about the impact of the Anti-Terrorism Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that was approved by
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Human rights defender Osama Al-Najjar sentenced to three years in prison
On 25 November 2014, the State Security Court at the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi sentenced human rights defender and on-line activist Osama Al-Najjar to three
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Trial of human rights defender Osama Al-Najjar continues
On 14 October 2014, the second hearing of the trial of human rights defender and on-line activist Osama Al-Najjar took place at the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi,
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