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The UAE's human rights issues were discussed by activists and experts present at a conference titled "Arbitrary Detention in the US: Addressing the Crisis of Civil Society Suppression", held during the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Ahmed Mansoor Al Shehhi (Arabic: أحمد منصور) is an Emirati blogger, human rights and reform activist arrested in 2011 for defamation and insults to the heads of state and tried in the UAE Five trial. He was pardoned by UAE's president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Mansoor was arrested again in March 2017 on charges of using ...
DAWN urged the UAE Regime to repatriate al-Siddiq's body to the Emirates to allow her to be buried in her homeland. The group also asked the UAE to allow her father Mohammed Abdul Razzaq al-Siddiq, who is a prisoner in conscience in the UAE, to be allowed to attend his daughter's funeral. Both requests were turned down by Emirates authorities. [24]
About 25 activists took part in the protest, holding up pictures of Emirati prisoners Ahmed Mansoor and Mohamed al-Siddiq and Egyptian-British political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. Human Rights ...
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 ...
Mansoor, a 49-year-old electrical engineer and poet, was among five activists convicted of insulting the UAE's rulers in 2011. UAE court upholds 10-year jail sentence of rights activist Mansoor ...
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]
He is a campaigner for human rights and justice in the UAE, specifically on unfair trials, torture, Interpol, and extraditions. [5] Haigh is the founder and managing director of Haigh International Justice, a dispute resolution, crisis, and media management strategic advisor. [6] He co-founded Legal Advocacy NGO Detained International in 2018. [7]