UAE continues to refuse UN experts' visit to its prisons for 10th year

Ten years have passed since the UAE foreign minister Anwar Gargash's statement that the UAE accepts requests from 
UN rapporteurs to visit the country to examine the human rights situation.

At the 2013 Universal Periodic Review, Anwar Gargash said the UAE accepted the invitation of Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.

However, no UN expert was allowed access to the Gulf country since then.

Last year, The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has sent a communication to the UAE expressing concern about certain laws and practices that don't comply with international human rights laws, particularly with regard to enforced disappearances.