AI fears that the above, a 35-year-old businessman and Iranian national, may be facing imminent execution in the UAE. He was sentenced to death in July 1995 by a shari’a court in the Emirate of al-Shariqa, after it found him guilty of apostasy, an offence punishable by death under Shari’a laws. AI understand he had previously received treatment by doctors for schizophrenia.
