GENEVA: The United Arab Emirates is arbitrarily detaining a dozen human rights activists who have already completed their prison terms, a UN document showed today, urging the government to immediately release them and allow them to seek compensation.
The dissidents are part of the so-called “UAE94” — a group of 94 lawyers, rights advocates and academics tried in 2013 and whose jail terms in the UAE — the Middle East’s trade and tourism hub – began expiring in 2019. Their detention violates several articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to the opinion issued by issued by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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