Articles for United Arab Emirates

Alkarama welcomes the selection, on 6 October 2015, of Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor as laureate of the 2015 Martin Ennals Award in recognition of his work providing credible and independent assessment of the human rights situation in the country.

On 15 September 2015, Alkarama requested the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to issue an Opinion declaring the arbitrary character of Osama Al Najjar's detention.

On 20 August 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Naser Bin Ghaith, a prominent economist, academic and advocate for political reforms, who disappeared following his arrest by the UAE State Security forces on 18 August 2015.

On 29 June 2015, Alkarama sent a request for Opinion to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Salim Alaradi, a Libyan-Canadian businessman, father of five, who was arrested by Emirati Security Service officers while on vacation with his family in Dubai. After his arrest, on 28 August 2014, Alaradi was transferred to an unknown location, where he was detained incommunicado and severely tortured for 130 days.

On 13 August 2015, Alkarama brought again to the attention of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) the case of Rami Shaher Abdel Jalil Al Mrayat, a Jordanian citizen arbitrarily detained in the United Arab Emirates since 19 November 2011.

On 18 June 2015, during the Human Rights Council (HRC)'s 29th session, the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (SR IJL), Gabriela Knaul, presented the report on her visit to the United Arab Em

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama sent an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances as well as to the Special Rapporteur on torture on the case of Amer Alshava, a Turkish national, academician and businessman who was abducted on 2 October 2014 at Dubai's Airport, UAE. His whereabouts remain unknown to date.

On 30 September 2014, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of two Qatari nationals who have been detained incommunicado since their arrest on 27 June 2014 by United Arab Emirates' police.

Alkarama recalled the case of Mr Al Najjar to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders as he is to face his first hearing today, before the Federal Supreme Court which is famous for handling unfair trials.

Mr Ahmed Mossad Elmaadawi Mohamed and his father-in-law, Mr Abdul Rahim Mohamed Yousef Nour Al Din, have been arrested respectively on 13 January 2014 and 13 February 2014 in Abu Dhabi and have disappeared since. They are both of Egyptian nationality and were aged 29 and 58 at the time of their disappearances.