Tweeters launched a massive campaign of solidarity with an Emirati academic the regime summoned for interrogation and accused him of inflicting repeated state security targeting human rights activists and opponents of Abu Dhabi.
Professor Youssef Khalifa Al-Youssef, a former economics professor at the UAE University, posted on Twitter a picture of an official statement he received from the State Security Prosecution, as he was summoned for interrogation on charges attributed to him of supporting for a terrorist group and threatening UAE security.
Al-Youssef commented on this by saying, “This is the letter of the mafia of Emirates jurisdiction, which I received recently where there is an accusation against me of financing terrorism, because I condemned freezing my money and my salary without any guilt… This is the jurisdiction of the state of happiness that is falling apart because of the mafias that is governing it.”
Al-Youssef wrote a message to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the actual ruler of the Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, saying: I left years ago from my homeland after I realized that it became a prison because of your clumsy policies, mismanagement, short-sightedness, and corruption of your entourage, and I still believed that.”
And at the end of last year, the Emirati regime punished Al-Youssef with freezing his bank account against the background of his public views criticizing human rights violations and arbitrary arrests in the country.
At the time, Al-Youssef said that the regime’s authorities froze his bank account in Dubai Islamic Bank, and described the move as a “mafia act.”
Al-Youssef has consistently attacked the current Emirati system and considers that he is running the country in a mafia-like manner and gambling with the present and future of the Emirates because of his reckless approach.
Twitter users launched a campaign on Twitter to denounce targeting him and to emphasize opposition to the oppressive approach of Abu Dhabi against human rights activists, opponents and critics of the regime’s policies.