The Arab Spring has not stopped Britain from helping crush free expression by selling crowd control ammunition to authoritarian states including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Alex Stevenson reports
CATEGORY: United Arab Emirates
UAE: Repression, torture and Twitter
Emirati citizens are using social media platforms to criticise security services for growing levels of repression with authorities responding in kind by arresting and torturing them. Rori Donaghy reports
United Arab Emirates targets HRW for critical report
The United Arab Emirates stand accused of blocking criticism over their human rights record, according to international monitoring group Human Rights Watch. Alastair Sloan reports
UAE: American citizen in maximum-security prison over satirical YouTube video
Shezanne Cassim was arrested for posting a mock documentary spoofing youth culture in Dubai
United Arab Emirates’ cybercrimes regulation strategically silencing critics
The authorities of the United Arab Emirates are using the 2012 cybercrimes decree crack down on dissent. Rori Donaghy, director of the Emirates Centre for Human Rights, writes
UAE: Activist sentenced to two years in prison for tweeting
Waleed al-Shehhi was accused of “endangering state security” and “harming the reputation of the state” for tweeting about a trial
UAE targets Arab-American news site
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are making transnational attempts to shut down the United States’ largest Arab-American newspaper, al-Watan. Rori Donaghy writes