UAE torture video trial
December 12th, 2009
The Abu Dhabi Sheikh at the center of the UAE torture video is going on trial Read more…
UAE racial discrimination report
August 6th, 2009
The UAE is one of the countries being reported on at a United Nations (UN) racial discrimination session held in August 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more…
Human rights Saadiyat Island
May 19th, 2009
Human Rights Watch (HRW) have issued a report about the workers on Saadiyat Island, called “The Island of Happiness: Exploitation of Migrant Workers on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi“. Read more…
Sheikh Issa arrested
May 11th, 2009
Sheikh Issa of the Abu Dhabi royal family, is being investigated by the Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution Office in relation to video footage of alleged torture, and has been suspended from official duties (he may not have had any anyway), detained (arrested?), and banned from leaving the UAE. Read more…
UAE torture video detention
May 9th, 2009
Apparently Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the alleged torturer in the now infamous UAE torture video story (although not reported on by the UAE press themselves), has been detained. Read more…
Sheikh Issa video UAE press
April 30th, 2009
There has been very little in the local UAE newspapers or radio about the UAE torture video allegedly featuring Sheikh Issa. Read more…
UAE investigation of torture video
April 30th, 2009
The Human Rights Office of the Abu Dhabi Judical Department will investigate the matter of the video allegedly showing a member of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family, Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed Al Nayhan, torturing an Afghani grain dealer over a deal that went sour. Read more…
HRW letter UAE torture
April 29th, 2009
Following the story of the video of a sheikh in the Abu Dhabi royal family torturing a gain dealer after being cheated, Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent a letter to the President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Read more…
UAE torture video
April 23rd, 2009
A sheikh in Abu Dhabi, UAE, allegedly plays the starring role in a gruesome UAE torture video from 2004 that has just come to light. Read more…