Despite having served their sentences, the UAE continues to hold at least nine political prisoners in detention.
Authorities in the UAE continue to detain at least nine political prisoners despite them having served their sentences.
ICFUAE said prisoners including Osama al Najjar, Badr al Bahri, Ahmed Almolla, Faysal, Othman and Abdelwaheed Elshoh, Abdullah Elhelw, Said Elbrimy and Kalifa Rabiaa, had finished their sentences but were still being held indefinitely. “These cases are yet a further indication of how the UAE authorities use counter-terrorism measures as a pretext to crackdown on peaceful human rights activism,” ICFUAE said in a statement.as little more than a cynical PR stunt,” it added.
“These men have served their time, any further imprisonment plainly violates their most basic human rights,” he said.
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