UN experts blast UAE over arrest of award-winning rights campaigner

‘UN experts have warned that the United Arab Emirates’ arrest of Ahmed Mansoor, an award-winning rights campaigner, has violated international law.
The UN working groups on arbitrary detention and on enforced disappearances in a statement on Tuesday disputed that there were any legitimate grounds for the detention.
“We regard Mr. Mansoor’s arrest and detention as a direct attack on the legitimate work of human rights defenders in the UAE,” the statement read.
The groups which include the UN’s top experts on human rights defenders, freedom of expression, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, also warned that his arrest on March 20 and detention in an unknown location since then “may constitute an act of reprisal” for his work with UN human rights bodies and supporter of rights organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW).’
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