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A UN expert urged the UAE's government to immediately release five human rights defenders who have been imprisoned in harsh conditions for eight years

UN expert urges UAE to release five human rights defenders who have been imprisoned in harsh conditions for eight years for plotting to overthrow the governmentDubai — A United Nations expert on Friday urged the United Arab Emirates government to immediately release five human rights defenders who have been imprisoned in harsh conditions for eight years.

“Their sentences were excessively severe and their detentions have been declared arbitrary according to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention,” said Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. The UAE government media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. UAE authorities have previously dismissed such accusations as false and unsubstantiated.

After the 2011 Arab Spring, it convicted dozens of Islamists, many of them suspected of belonging to the Islah group, on charges of plotting to overthrow the government in a hearing criticised by rights groups. Islah was accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in the UAE.

 

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