Ex-UN rights official urges UAE to release Ahmed Mansoor – Middle East Monitor

Former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson in the present day urged the United Arab Emirates to free a pro-democracy campaigner jailed in 2018 for criticising the federal government on social media, Reuters reported.

Rights teams say Ahmed Mansoor, who’s serving a ten-year sentence, could also be struggling therapy amounting to torture. The UAE has denied mistreating him.

“He’s regarded by the human rights neighborhood as a courageous human rights defender,” stated Robinson whereas addressing a local weather occasion on the Expo Dubai world honest. “This [releasing him] can be a well timed transfer additionally known as for by the parliament of the European Union.”

When contacted for remark, the UAE International Ministry referred Reuters to an earlier assertion during which it rejected a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report voicing concern about Mansoor’s welfare.

Robinson, a former Irish president, has stated she was tricked in 2018 when she was invited to Dubai to verify on a daughter of the emirate’s ruler who tried to flee her household however was snatched from a ship in worldwide waters off India.

The household on the time launched images of Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Al-Maktoum sitting with Robinson, who advised the BBC in February she had not requested Latifa about her state of affairs.

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Latifa issued an announcement in June saying she now had freedom to journey after images on social media confirmed her overseas, 4 months after the BBC aired a video message during which Latifa stated she was being held captive.

Her case forged a highlight on the household affairs of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, who can be vice-president and prime minister of the UAE.

The Gulf state doesn’t tolerate dissent. HRW says a whole bunch of activists, teachers and legal professionals are serving prolonged sentences, in lots of instances after unfair trials on broad fees.

The worldwide rights watchdog has stated Mansoor has been held largely incommunicado and denied a mattress and mattress. The UAE International Ministry stated in July this was “categorically unfaithful”.