Patterns of Torture in the United Arab Emirates.

A new report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) marks the tenth anniversary of the arrest and detention of the UAE94, a group of human rights defenders (HRDs), lawyers, judges, teachers, academics and students who peacefully advocated for political reform. Coming ten years after this watershed moment for human rights and civic freedoms in the UAE, the report unequivocally demonstrates that in the intervening decade, the UAE has relied heavily on torture to silence peaceful dissenting voices. 

The key patterns of torture that emerge are: the use of arbitrary arrest, detention and enforced disappearances to perpetrate torture with impunity; the punishment and further torture of those who dare to speak out about their conditions of detention and; the complicity of companies and the international community in the systematic perpetration of torture in the UAE.

In order to break the cycle of impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of torture in the UAE, the report recommends that the UAE bring its Penal Code and legislation on torture, counter-terrorism and cybercrime in line with international human rights standards. 

For the full report click here: https://www.gc4hr.org/report/view/156