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UAE authorities: Expressing an opinion is a “threat” to public security

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The Center for the Advocacy of Emirates Detainees said that the Emirati authorities view the expression of opinion as the most dangerous crime for public security in the country. It explains their aggressive behavior against prisoners of conscience and opponents.

The Center highlighted that the Abu Dhabi authorities exclude prisoners of conscience from the amnesty decrees they issue on national and religious occasions and holidays, even though they have not committed any crimes.

The Center considered that this “indicates that the UAE authorities see the expression of opinion as a crime more dangerous to public security than murder and violent crimes.”

It pointed out that “the days separate us from the blessed Eid al-Fitr, during which the children of prisoners of conscience wish to meet their fathers and mothers,” calling on the authorities in the UAE to release them, especially those whose sentences have expired.

It cautioned that since 2014, the authorities in the UAE have prohibited visits to family members, including the children of prisoners of conscience.

The Center stated that stability in the state is achieved without injustice and enables the authorities to establish a just system that preserves rights, borders and the law of justice.

During the holy month of Ramadan, Emirati detainees who spent ten years in prison were supposed to be released, not because of a sin they committed, but because they exercised their right to express their opinions freely.

These detainees have suffered from great injustice and a sense of grievance for human and citizen dignity. They have been beaten, tortured and unjustly imprisoned. Their nationalities have been revoked, their families have been expelled, and violations have been committed against them.

The Studies Center also highlighted the revenge approach followed by the Emirati regime against opponents and opinion activists.

The Center said that the UAE authorities are not satisfied with the policy of collective punishment that they are committing against detainees and their families and friends. Instead, they follow the methodology of revenge if international human rights organizations sympathize with them or information about their humanitarian situation in the cells comes out.

It pointed out that the transfer of prominent human rights activist Ahmed Mansour to a smaller cell due to the wide international solidarity that his case received was not an isolated crime, but rather that more than one crime committed by the state security apparatus turned out to be a “revenge approach” that the authority has been taking revenge on the national fighters citizens’ rights advocates.

It pointed out that the UAE judiciary had previously issued a new political ruling against Amina Al-Abdouli and Maryam Al-Balushi, with an additional three years in prison after the expiry of the two sentences issued against them in 2019. The accusation is that they smuggled audio recordings and letters complaining about their imprisonment.

“The security apparatus also continues to take revenge on several detainees who have completed their detention period, some of them since 2019, in what he calls “counselling centres”.

The Center emphasized that it is not only the detainees or their families who are subjected to this offensive approach to the land, people and leadership of the UAE, but even the opponents abroad.

Four were placed on terrorist lists; Ahmed Al-Nuaimi, the dissident outside the country, was denied access to his sick son until he passed away last year because the authorities banned him from leaving the country.

The Center considered that on the surface, the revenge approach appears to be directed at the detainees and those expressing their opinions. Still, it is a warning message to all Emiratis that demanding reforms or expressing an opinion can be considered a curse for a citizen or resident.

It stressed that this is not only intimidating the Emiratis, but rather out of fear of citizens and transforming their movement and calls into a societal political act that rejects revenge, and refuses for the state to act as a gang that takes revenge on citizens, and harnesses laws and the constitution to serve its suspicious agendas.

He stressed that the revenge approach only exposes the authorities and exposes the falseness of the modernization they are talking about in the future, as they return their security behavior to the Middle Ages.

The approach of revenge ends the work of the recently formed Human Rights Commission, which will undoubtedly not speak or refer to the case of Ahmed Mansour and the violations against him, nor will it go to talk about violations against the rest of the detainees.