Online Panel Event “UAE: Tools of Repression”

How a flawed legal system and a multibillion-dollar PR machine are used to provide legitimacy to the abuses committed by the UAE’s regime.

About this event

The International Campaign for Freedom in the UAE (ICFUAE), the European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR), ALQST for Human Rights and the International Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ICJHR) are hosting a high-level, virtual panel event on “Tools of Repression in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)”.

We want to devote this event to courageous human rights activists, who defend the rights of all citizens in the UAE, as well as to turn the spotlight on the reality of human rights abuses committed by the UAE government behind a façade of tolerance and openness.

The panel will consist of:

1) Brian Dooley, a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and Senior Advisor at Washington DC-based NGO Human Rights First.

2) Oscar Jenz, a United Arab Emirates Country Coordinator for Amnesty International UK.

3) Hiba Zayadin, a researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch.

4) Matthew Hedges, a UK academic in International relations, Security Studies, Authoritarianism & Arabian Peninsula.

The event will be at 15:00 GMT+2.

Date: 29 June 2021

Time: 4PM UK time

Please register for the event on Eventbrite.