2023-06-02 12:43:04
A document from the United Nations showed, on Friday, that the UAE is forcibly detaining regarding 12 human rights activists following they have already completed their prison sentences.
The document urged the government to release them immediately and allow them to seek compensation.
The document was issued three weeks following relatives of prisoners and human rights activists said that more than 50 people who had been sentenced for plotting to overthrow the UAE government were still being held, despite the passage of months or years following the end of their prison terms, according to Archyde.com.
They are part of what is known as (UAE 94).
This group includes 94 lawyers, human rights defenders and academics, who were tried in 2013, and the prison terms of those convicted began to expire in 2019.
In 2013, the UAE prosecuted 94 people who belong to or support the banned “Society for Reform and Social Guidance,” which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which is on the “terror lists” in the Emirates, in a case known as the “UAE 94,” according to “Agence France Presse.”
At the conclusion of the trial, the UAE convicted 69 people of “belonging to an illegal secret organization and plotting once morest the country’s regime,” while acquitting 25 other defendants in the same case, including 13 women.
The UN document said that 12 dissidents who have served prison sentences for years since July 2019 are being held “on discriminatory grounds because of their status as human rights defenders and their political or other opinions related to holding the authorities accountable.”
According to the document issued by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, their detention violates several articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“The appropriate remedy would be to release the twelve individuals immediately and grant them an enforceable right to seek reparations… consistent with international law,” the document said.
The document indicated that the UAE did not respond to this opinion within a period of 60 days.
The UAE Foreign Ministry did not respond to Archyde.com requests for comment.
The UAE authorities have previously said that what was said regarding the detention of prisoners following the expiration of their sentences is “alleged and unfounded.”
A list prepared by the UAE Detainees Advocacy Center, previously seen by Archyde.com, showed that 51 people are still being held following their sentences have expired.
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