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UAE: Alkarama brings the case of Abdullah Abdelwahab to the UN, a Yemeni businessman sentenced for Facebook posts

On 11 March 2025, Alkarama submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) the case of Mr. Abdullah Ali Abdulhafidh ABDELWAHAB, a Yemeni businessman who was arbitrarily arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and sentenced to 15 years in prison merely for posts on Facebook. 

12 Mar 2025
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فلسطيني يحتج ضد الإمارات

United Arab Emirates: Alkarama Condemns Crackdown on Supporters of Palestinians

Alkarama expresses its deep concern over reports of raids and arrests carried out by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against Palestinian and Arab residents of the country for their solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the Israeli occupation's killing and genocide in Gaza. 

15 Aug 2024
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محكمة إماراتية

UAE: 53 Political Prisoners Condemned Again After Finishing Their Sentences

Alkarama strongly condemns the unjust sentences issued by a court in the United Arab Emirates against 53 political detainees. Most of these individuals were the subject of Opinions from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had called for their immediate release. 

18 Jul 2024
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United Arab Emirates
Our concerns
  • Repression of freedom of opinion and expression and reprisals against human rights defenders and peaceful dissidents;
  • Continued and systematic practice of torture to extract confessions during investigations and as a form of punishment;
  • Exportation of the systematic practice of enforced disappearance and torture to UAE-controlled theatres of operation in Yemen.

 

Human Rights Instruments
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
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Individual Complaint procedure with the Human Rights committee (ICCPR Optional protocol 1) Ratified ?
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Second Optional Protocol of ICCPR (abolition of death penalty) ratified ?
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Next Human Rights Committee State Report due
OVERDUE - State party did not submit report on time
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (UNCAT)
UNCAT Ratified ?
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UNCAT Ratification Date
OPCAT (National Preventive Mechanism) Ratified ?
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National Preventive Mechanism (OPCAT) created ?
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UNCAT Art 20 (confidential inquiries) ratified ?
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UNCAT Art 21 (Interstate complaints) ratified ?
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UNCAT Art 22 (Individual Complaint procedure) Ratified ?
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Date of last Concluding Observations by Committee against Torture (CAT)
Next CAT State Report Due
OVERDUE - State party did not submit report on time
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED)
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ICPPED Art 31 (Individual communications) ratified ?
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ICPPED Art 33 (Inquiry procedure ) ratified ?
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Human Rights Council
Date last Universal Period Review (UPR)
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Membership of Human Rights Council:

2013-2018, 2022-2024

Latest Reports
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UAE: Universal Periodic Review - 3rd cycle- Alkarama's Report - Jun 2017

United Arab Emirates
Universal Periodic Review
Report
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UAE: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Opinion 60/2013 - UAE94

United Arab Emirates
Special Procedures
Report
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UAE: Universal Periodic Review- 2nd cycle- Alkarama's report- jul 2012

United Arab Emirates
Universal Periodic Review
Report
WGAD Opinion Diqqi

United Arab Emirates: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Opinion 8/2009 - Hassan Al Diqqi

United Arab Emirates
Special Procedures
Report
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UAE: Universal Periodic Review- 1st cycle- Government Pledges- dec 2008

United Arab Emirates
Universal Periodic Review
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