Family of Lee Bradley, who died in Dubai, launched Website Justiceforleebrown

Lee died under suspicious circumstances in Bur Dubai Police Station just weeks ago.

The family are determined that Lee's death should not be in vain.

His family currently fighting for justice for Lee and the truth about his final days amid many many obstacles.

They will continue in the hope that highlighting the tragic death of such a kind and generous man will have a more far reaching impact on the conditions in which Lee was kept and the level of care that citizens can expect when overseas whether working or on holiday, like Lee.

His family can't begin to express the effect that Lee's shocking death has had and the drive that we now have to ensure that the families of others do not have to endure some of the heartache and pain that we have lived through and the hurdles that we have had to overcome.

More up to date information about the campaign is posted on the Comments page

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US citizen sues Emaar Dubai : Tortured - Stalked - Harrassed

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Dubai based  Emaar Propertiesbest known for building the world’s tallest
building, the Burj Khalifa, has been sued in California for torture and
false imprisonment by American businessman Lionel Lombard. United States
District Court, Eastern District of California, Case 2:10-at-00928 LOMBARD v. EMAAR USA et al.

Mr. Lombard a former partner in a Dubai public relations firm complained
about Apartheid and treatment of foreign workers at one of Emaar’s
flagship properties, The Springs.

Mr. Lombard, an American citizen, was repeatedly harassed by Emaar’s
security guards because of his stance. After he took his case directly
to Emaar’s chairman, Mohammed Ali Alabbar, Lombard was imprisoned for
almost two years, beaten and tortured in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

All charges against Lombard were dropped in February 2010 without
explanation. Non citizens are often imprisoned in Dubai at the whim of
officials or due to business disputes. Despite attempts by Dubai to
portray itself as a progressive business and tourist destination, the
reality is that hundreds of non citizens are jailed each year due to
minor civil disputes. Emaar and Mr. Alabbar became incensed at Lombard after local media picked up his story.
The lawsuit also charges Emaar’s USA Division with unfair competition under California law. Emaar is the developer of the ultra luxury Beverly West tower in Los Angeles.
According to attorney Jonathan Levy, Emaar engages in illicit  business practices by imprisoning and torturing its critics.

Jailed in Dubai Debtors Prisons

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Reporter on this story: Henry Meyer in Dubai at hmeyer4@bloomberg.net; The editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg

Not long ago, British businessman Ryan Cornelius was living the high life, doing deals out of Bahrain and taking his family big-game fishing on his yacht and on safari in Kenya. He’s now into his third year in a Dubai jail cell, yet to be convicted of anything.“The worst aspect of the way we’ve been treated is the fact that the legal system seems to be so suspended in its own inefficiency,” he said from a pay phone at Dubai’s Central Prison. “We just don’t seem to move forward. The whole legal system seems to hold you in a state of constant suspension.”

Cornelius, 56, and six co-defendants have been charged with defrauding Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC of $501 million, one of the largest such cases in the history of United Arab Emirates. He says he did nothing wrong, and like others, foreigners and nationals, who profited in Dubai in the boom times, he waits in prison as the legal system slowly tries to separate the guilty from the innocent of those
arrested in an anti-corruption drive.

Dubai’s image as the Singapore of the Middle East, a global hub for finance and tourism, is being tested as it tries to clamp down on excesses such as fraud and overdevelopment, which came with an explosion of people and investment. Its judicial system still often has more in common with its regional neighbors than the Western nations that it aspires to emulate, say lawyers and economists who work there.

The government won’t say how many people have been arrested in the two-year campaign against financial corruption. Detained in Dubai, a London-based lobbying group, says several hundred executives may have been jailed.

Debtors’ Prisons In all, about 40 percent of the 1,200 people in Dubai Central Prison have been convicted of defaulting on bank loans, Human Rights Watch said in a report in January. Even after completing their sentences, the New York-based group said, prisoners are likely to remain in jail until their debt is paid off, unlike in the U.S. or the

U.K., where debtors’ prisons were abolished in the 19th century.

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