UAE must end its crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders
The ICJ calls on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to end their crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Situations in specific countries or territories, A/HRC/4/25/Add.1, April 5, 2007
Communications sent 375. On 13 March 2006, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal together with the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or...Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, A/HRC/4/33/Add.1, 20 March 2007: United Arab Emirates
United Ara Emirates, Date: 13/03/06 317. Sultan Salem Sultan Bunawwas, Magid Muhammad Khalifa al-Mazru`I, Salih Muhammad Hussein Ahmad, Salah Yusif Hamza al-Asmakh, Shihab Muhammad Abdullah al-Mihirbi, Ahmad Muhammad Thani al-Mazru`I, Khalid Jamal Ali al-Manna`I, Abd...United Arab Emirates: New Anti-Terror Law
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