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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, and Dubai in particular, are a cause of grave concern, they attract considerable numbers of western tourists and businesses to the region, portraying themselves as a tolerant multi-cultural society and purporting to be one of the safest countries in the world, hosting high profile sporting events, international conventions and exhibitions.  It is anything but safe, having the world’s highest arrest and detention rate per capita, combined with consistent and horrendous Human Rights abuses.

There is no freedom of speech or opinion, and a state-controlled news media is in place.  There is intrusive monitoring of all communications, combined with complex and strict censorship and control laws.  Any criticism of the regime, its policies or government brings swift reprisals, often in the form of arbitrary detention. Torture is routinely used to obtain confessions, which are later relied upon as evidence at trial, sentencing individuals to lengthy detention in inhumane conditions.

Many people from democratic modern societies often find themselves in extreme difficulty in the country.  It is all too easy to mistake the open friendly image the country advertises, and spends a considerable amount of time and resources promoting in global and social media, when in fact they operate a police state, with draconian debt laws and a medieval system of criminal justice.  Travel bans and arbitrary detention are widely used to extract large payments from foreign visitors by local businesses.

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Thank you for visiting Detained.org.uk.

Our new website is launching soon.

 

Detained International is a not-for-profit human rights organisation providing free legal advocacy, crisis support, and media and political campaigning for victims of injustice in Dubai and the wider UAE. While we put the finishing touches to our new site, we are also excited to be unveiling a fresh rebrand and have some exciting news about joining forces with some fantastic fellow human rights advocates, together, we will be an even more indomitable force for those who have nowhere else to turn. One thing remains constant, when individuals and families face their most desperate moments in Dubai and the wider UAE, we are there for them, free of charge.

 

Our team of specialist lawyers, crisis managers, media, PR and communications experts, and expert witnesses has an unrivalled track record across some of the most high-profile human rights cases in Dubai and the UAE. Whether it is a wrongful arrest, a custody dispute, cross-border litigation, an Interpol Red Notice, bringing an injustice to the United Nations, our international campaign to free Princess Latifa, our support to Princess Haya, or our work standing alongside the remarkable and courageous Zeynab Zavadli in her fight for justice for herself and her children, we have been at the forefront of it all for over a decade. This new website is long overdue.

 

Watch this space.

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