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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 ...
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.
The United Arab Emirates Five (Arabic: الإمارات خمسة, romanized: al-Imārāt Khamsat) are five activists who were arrested in April 2011 on charges of breaking United Arab Emirates law of defamation by insulting heads of state, namely UAE president Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, vice president Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Abu Dhabi crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ...
The state-run WAM news agency reported the verdicts after human rights activists said the sentences had been handed down. Five defendants received 15-year sentences while five others received 10 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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]