Emirati authorities are holding an unfair mass trial that has raised serious due process concerns. The trial includes many defendants held in prolonged solitary confinement, which may amount to torture.| Human Rights Watch
(Beirut) – The United Arab Emirates’ deeply flawed new counterterrorism law will enable the courts to convict peaceful government critics as terrorists and sentence them to death.| Human Rights Watch
COP28, to be held in November/December 2023 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is the 28th annual UN climate conference where governments, experts, journalists, and representatives from businesses, civil society and Indigenous peoples meet to discuss the climate action necessary to enable countries to collectively meet the target of keeping the global rise of temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, thereby avoiding the worst consequences of the climate crisis. The UAE, one of the world’s large...| www.hrw.org
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in 2023 and used it to burnish its image despite pushing for fossil fuel expansion and maintaining a zero-tolerance policy toward dissent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024.| Human Rights Watch
UAE authorities have brought new charges against 87 defendants under its counterterrorism law in retaliation for forming an independent advocacy group in 2010.| Human Rights Watch
An Emirati academic facing charges that include his peaceful criticism of the Egyptian and Emirati authorities will have spent more than 18 months in detention by the time the next session of his trial takes place on February 22, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. Nasser bin Ghaith spent nine months in incommunicado detention after his arrest in August 2015, and authorities have kept him in solitary confinement since his transfer to the maximum security block in Al-Sadr jail on May 18, ...| Human Rights Watch
A Detailed Report on the “UAE84” Case Introduction In December 2023, while hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) brought charges against 84 defendants in Case no. 87/2023, most of whom are prominent activists and dissidents, on charges of establishing and managing a clandestine, allegedly terrorist […]| Gulf Centre for Human Rights