Arab Spring
Posted on 2011/12/11
UAE Activists freed from jail Posted by 7starsdubai on 2011/11/30
UAE Activist Ahmed Mansoor and his Lawyer Dr. Mohammed Al Roken On
Sunday, after being held in prison for almost eight months, the five
were convicted of insulting the UAE’s leadership, endangering national
security and inciting people to protest. Then a day later, they received
a [...]Detained UAE Activists Planning Hunger Strike
Posted on 2011/11/15
Human Rights Watch reports that the Five activists jailed seven
months ago for “publicly insulting” United Arab Emirates officials plan
to begin a hunger strike on November 13, 2011, Human Rights Watch said
today. The activists said the hunger strike will continue until
authorities release them unconditionally and end all judicial
proceedings against them. In [...]Read the rest of this post...
Unbelievable Smear Campaign against detained UAE blogger Ahmed Mansoor
Posted on 2011/11/09
UAE Blogger Trial Abu Dhabi Dubai Ahmed Mansoor Human Rights
activist is one of five activists accused of encouraging protests,
insulting the country’s rulers and disrupting public order earlier this
year, in a case described by rights groups as a travesty of justice.Read the rest of this post...
Video Library
Posted on 2011/11/08
DUBAI and UAE Video Selection UAE Blogger Human Rights Activist
Ahmed Mansoor Trial 2011 BURJ Al Arab Dubai Video Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum Video The Case Safi Qurashi Dubai Detained in Dubai –
Radha Stirling Burj Al Arab Dubai 7 Star Hotel Dubai `s First Lady –
Princess HayaRead the rest of this post...
UAE Blogger Ahmed Mansoor to appear in court next week
Posted on 2011/07/14
The trial of Ahmed Mansoor, a blogger and human rights activist who
has been held since April, is due to resume in Abu Dhabi on 18 July.
Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities to drop the charges
against this netizen and release him without delay. More than 10 police
officers took part in Mansoor’s arrest [...]Read the rest of this post...
UAE: Human Rights Blogger, Sorbonne Lecturer Charged With ‘Humiliating’ Officials
Posted on 2011/06/17
source Human Rights Watchwww.hrw.org (Beirut) – The United Arab
Emirates attorney general should immediately drop all charges against
five pro-democracy activists to halt their trial, Human Rights Watch
said today. The charges of “humiliating” top officials relate solely to
the defendants’ peaceful use of speech to criticize the UAE government
and therefore violate their freedom [...]Read the rest of this post...
Democracy and Human Rights-Middle East Unrest – Repression in the United Arab Emirates
Posted on 2011/06/04
June 2011 – source The Nation For the past four months, hundreds of
thousands of voices demanding variations on a theme—democracy, human
rights, an end to torture, a stop to corruption—have echoed from Morocco
to Yemen, each with its own local variation. In the United Arab
Emirates, a federation of seven small semi-autonomous sheikdoms, that
[...]Read the rest of this post...
Amnesty UAE Dubai – Ahmad Mansoor Fahad Salem al-Shehh Nasser bin Ghaith
Posted on 2011/04/16
ADVOCATES OF POLITICAL REFORM DETAINED IN UAE Two civil society
activists and an economist have been detained in the United Arab
Emirates (UAE), apparently linked to their calls for political reform.
Their lawyer does not know where they are being held. They are likely to
be prisoners of conscience. Ahmad Mansoor, a blogger associated with
[...]Read the rest of this post...
UAE human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor detained after death threats
Posted on 2011/04/10
Duba April 9, 2011 – Ahmed Mansoor, Human Rights Activist and
Blogger from the United Arab Emirates , was taken from his apartment in
Dubai on Friday April 8, 2011 afternoon, he has not been heard from
since he was taken from his Dubai apartment Friday, his wife said. CNN
report that Lt. General Dhahi [...]Read the rest of this post...
UAE detains democracy Activist and Blogger Ahmed Mansoor in Dubai
Posted on 2011/04/08
UAE Activist and Blogger Ahmed Mansour detained in Dubai April 8, 2011Read the rest of this post...
Bahrain activists receive threats after anonymous death call
Posted on 2011/03/12
Bahrain Middle East Protests 2011. One of the activists named in
yesterday’s text message, Mahmmad al-Maskati from the Bahrain Youth
Society for Human Rights, told Amnesty International he has received
around 11 anonymous threatening phone calls since the message calling
for him to be killed was circulated yesterday.Read the rest of this post...
Emirati Woman
Posted on 2011/01/06
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is quickly transforming its formerly
tribal Bedouin society into an emerging economy that is catching the
eye of the world. Dubai, one of the seven emirates, has established
itself as a financial hub that attracts expatriate workers and investors
from around the world.Over the past decade, it has become a [...]Read the rest of this post...
Sanctions against Iran Human Rights abuses – Hillary Clinton
Posted on 2010/10/02
Middle East Dubai sanctions Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) Hillary ClintonRead the rest of this post...
Human Rights Dubai – Details of a detention in UAE
Posted on 2010/09/19
Dubai lawyer Dr. Mohamed al Roken Human RightsRead the rest of this post...
Dubai Debtors Prisons – Legal System on trial
Posted on 2010/08/11
US Human Rights Case against Emaar Dubai United Arab EmiratesRead the rest of this post...
Dubai dream trip turned into a nightmare for Charlotte
Posted on 2010/05/10
Dubai Human Rights. British Tourist Charlotte Adams end in a Dubai
Prison for just begging her friend. Tourist warning for trips to Dubai.In her first interview since being released Charlotte told the Sunday Mirror: “I never, ever imagined, in a million years, something like this would happen – it just seems so unjust. It is so good to be back. I’ve thought of nothing else for the past few months. The hardest part was having my freedom taken away. I’ve been stuck in Dubai since November knowing that what I was guilty of was such a small, harmless gesture.
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Human rights UAE – Sheikh Issa Al Nahyan
Posted on 2010/01/26
source Financial TimesRead the rest of this post...
Shahram Abdullah Zadeh vs Al Fajer Properties – A Dubai Deal called into Questions
Posted on 2009/12/05
Fraud Dubai Al Fajer Properties Scandal 2008 Shahram Abdullah Zadeh and Sheikh Maktoum Hasher bin Juma Al MaktoumJumeirah Business Centre Jumeirah Lake Towers
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UAE collect DNA from all Residents – DNA database set to start in a year
Posted on 2009/10/24
source The National The UAE aims to start collecting genetic
samples from residents within 12 months as part of its controversial DNA
database project, the programme’s director said yesterday, making it
the first country in the world to do so. Dr Ahmed al Marzooqi, the
director of the National DNA Database, also said the order [...]Read the rest of this post...
VIP Dubai – From the Archive – Rapid Change, Emphasis on Business Overshadow Concerns on Rights
Posted on 2009/09/20
original source Washington Post May 2007 DUBAI, United Arab
Emirates — Mohammed al-Roken is perhaps the most prominent human rights
activist in Dubai. That distinction has cost him. He was arrested twice.
The government forced him out of his job as a professor, canceled his
public lectures and banned him from writing in newspapers. Nine [...]Read the rest of this post...
Escape from Dubai – Washington Post – Herve Jaubert fled last Summer
Posted on 2009/08/20
source Washington Post DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Herve Jaubert,
a French spy who left espionage to make leisure submarines for the
wealthy, was riding high. Bankrolled by Dubai World, a government-owned
conglomerate, he built a submarine workshop on the Persian Gulf, lived
rent-free in a villa with a pool and tooled around town in [...]Read the rest of this post...
Posted on 2009/07/20
source TimesOnline SundayTimes July, 2009 Andrew Blair says he will
pick me up from outside my sleaze-bucket of a hotel, give it 20 minutes
or so, got some work to finish off. He has a job again, contracts
apparently “coming out of his ears”, which is good, because until
recently he had earned a certain [...]Read the rest of this post...
UAE pledges fair trial of royal Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on torture claims
Posted on 2009/07/15
source Zawya ABU DHABI, July, 2009 (AFP) The Abu Dhabi prosecution
service on Monday pledged an “impartial trial” of torture allegations
against a brother of the United Arab Emirates president. “The overriding
principle of these investigations is the protection of law,
guaranteeing a fair and impartial trial for all persons involved,” an
unidentified prosecution official [...]Read the rest of this post...
Al Fajer Properties Dubai Scandal media blackout
Posted on 2009/06/20
Dubai Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum President Al Fajer Properties
has touched neveres across the city of Dubai. Investors of the Developer
project Jumeriah Business Centre and the Ebony and Ivory Tower Project
Jumeirah Lake Towers ask to refund the Money they invest in Dubai
Properties develped by Al Fajer Properties. Local Dubai and regional
media alerted to the situation. News agencies across the city said they
were silenced by by senior representatives of the government of Dubai.Read the rest of this post...
UAE ‘torture’ case seen as critical test of justice
Posted on 2009/05/16
source FinancialTimes May 16.2009 by Andrew England Abu Dhabi and
Simeon Kerr in Dubai The footage begins with an assault rifle allegedly
being fired by a member of the United Arab Emirates’ ruling family.
Bullets throw up clouds of sand as they smash into the desert, inches
from a cowering Afghan grain trader. It moves [...]Read the rest of this post...
More tapes depicting Sheikh Issabin Zayed Al Nahyan torturing victims exist.
Posted on 2009/04/30
source CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) — A videotape of a heinous torture
session is delaying the ratification of a civil nuclear deal between the
United Arab Emirates and the United States, senior U.S. officials
familiar with the case said. On Wednesday, an Abu Dhabi government
agency issued a statement deploring the video and promising a full [...]Read the rest of this post...
UAE: Prosecute Torture by Royal Family Member
Posted on 2009/04/28
source HRW Independent Body Should Investigate Abuse of Afghan
Grain Dealer, Police Role and Flawed Ministry Review (New York) – The
United Arab Emirates should investigate and prosecute the torture of an
Afghan grain dealer by a royal family member, Shaikh Issa bin Zayed al
Nahyan, and the police, Human Rights Watch said in a [...]Read the rest of this post...
Jailed Dubai mum Marnie Pearce to be freed by pardon tomorrow
Posted on 2009/04/27
source Mirror Marnie Pearce, the British mum jailed in Dubai for
adultery, has won a dramatic pardon and will be set free tomorrow.
Marnie, 40, was locked up after her Egyptian husband falsely claimed she
cheated on him. She was supposed to be deported back to Britain after
her sentence – which could have meant [...]Read the rest of this post...
Dubai Jailed Brit mum Marnie Pearce’s ex husband tells her she’ll never see kids again
Posted on 2009/04/20
source mirror uk The British mum jailed in Dubai for adultery has
been told by the ex-husband who framed her: “You will never see your
children again.” Marnie Pearce – still in prison for a “crime” she
vehemently denies – was told the news in a cruel phone taunt from her
former husband Ihab El [...]Read the rest of this post...
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum: “The life-span of lies is always short.”
Posted on 2009/04/19
source EmiratesBusiness24/7The UAE has acted as a cohesive
federation to face the global financial meltdown with a fast,
well-thought-out response and has overcome the crisis with the least
amount of losses, the nation’s Vice-President and Prime Minister said
yesterday, adding that “the worst is already behind us”. In his first
large-scale online interaction with the [...]Read the rest of this post...
Just the Good News, Please: New UAE Media Law Continues to Stifle Press”
Posted on 2009/04/13
source The National UAE UAE media law ‘falls short’ DUBAI // The
UAE’s draft media law represents “significant” improvements, but does
not go far enough and will continue to restrict press freedoms,
according to a Human Rights Watch report released yesterday.
Representatives from the US-based rights watchdog were in Dubai for the
launch of the [...]Read the rest of this post...
Dubai Police Accuse Lawmaker In Chechen Exile’s Killing
Posted on 2009/04/06
source RadioFreeEurope Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say a
member of the Russian State Duma who is a close relative of Chechen
President Ramzan Kadyrov has emerged as the chief suspect in ordering
the assassination of a former Chechen general in Dubai. Dubai’s police
chief, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan bin Tamim, told a news [...]Read the rest of this post...
