UAE

Human Rights in UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

United Arab Emirates: Fear of torture/death penalty, Gary Dixon ...
1 March 2001

British national Gary Dixon is reportedly facing extradition from Dubai to Saudi Arabia, in connection with car-bombings that took place in Riyadh and al-Khobar ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/001/2001

UAE: Flogging
15 November 2000

Pifatool Karima, Sri Lankan national, and 4 unnamed Emirati men and women have been sentenced to flogging by a Shari'a (Islamic) court in the Emirate of Fujairah ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/005/2000

United Arabe Emirates (UAE): Flogging
5 September 2000

Fatima Mohammad Ra'uf (f), Sri Lankan national and Mohammad Koya, Indian national have been sentenced to flogging and imprisonment by a Shari'a (Islamic) court ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/004/2000

United Arab Emirates:Further information on death penalty by ...
24 April 2000

An appeal court in the Emirate of Fujairah has commuted the death sentence against Kartini bint Karim to one year's imprisonment, with an order that she be deported ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/003/2000

United Arab Emirates: Death Penalty by stoning: Karteen Karikender
16 March 2000

On 13 March 2000 appeal proceedings reportedly began on behalf of Kartini bint Karim (please note correction to name). The Indonesian authorities are said to have ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/002/2000

United Arab Emirates: Death Penalty by stoning: Karteen Karikender
29 February 2000

A Shari'a (Islamic) court in the Emirate of Fujairah has reportedly ordered Karteen Karikender, a pregnant woman, to be stoned to death after she was found guilty ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/001/2000

Death Penalty News December 1999
1 December 1999

1. No action at UN General Assembly; 2. Death penalty abolished in East Timor; 3. India: Appeal rejected in Ganghi assassination case; 4. Turkey: Ocalan appeal ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/005/1999

UAE: Further information on death penalty: Gamini Perera
8 November 1999

Gamini Perera was executed on the morning of 8 November 1999 by firing squad. He had been sentenced to death in October 1998 in connection with the murder of a ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/005/1999

UAE: Death penalty: Gamini Perera
2 November 1999

Amnesty International is concerned that Gamini Perera could soon be executed. He has exhausted all his appeals and his sentence will now go to the ruler of Dubai ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/004/1999

United Arab Emirates: Further information on Death penalty / legal ...
6 June 1999

On 2 June 1999 Anton Samoilenkov and Ruslan Gerbekov had their death sentences commuted by an appeal court in ‘Ajman to 10 years' imprisonment. They were each ordered ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/002/1999