Abu Dhabi launching an initiative of "Moral" Education

Abu Dhabi launching an initiative of "Moral" Education

Under the directives of Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, Abu Dhabi has witnessed on Wednesday a new initiative incorporating Moral Education 

"The initiative will be included in school curricula and courses in the form of a subject entitled “Moral Education”, in cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi Education Council, and other relevant institutions.The subject will include five key elements: ethics, personal and community development, culture and heritage, civic education, and rights and responsibilities."

This subject is therefore supposed to teach young people what's right and what's wrong, The question that arises in the midst of all this : Isn't it contradictory to be immoral when it comes to torturing 200 prisoners of conscience kept behind bars and at the same time preaching for ethics and rights ?   

Since 2011 there have been continued detentions and trials of activists and reformers in the UAE. Treatment whilst in detention has raised serious concerns and in her report to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2015 the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Lawyers and Judges, Gabrielle Knaul, reported that more than 200 cases of torture had been brought before the UAE  courts. None of these cases had been investigated. 

I think the UAE needs to explain to its youth how the 'unfair' trials , and the 'torture' of the inmates that includes "being beaten, leaving bruises and swelling to the body ,sleep deprivation,being tied up,going through electric shock or being forced to sit in an electric chair ,deprivation of daylight, exposure to bright electric light 24 hours a day, being blindfolded and threatened, being kept in very small cells without windows or a toilet, being forced to ask permission and being forced to strip in order to go to the toilet, exposure to extreme temperatures, extraction of fingernails and plucking of beards, being drugged, going through sexual assaults and threats thereof; threats of HIV infection, being massively insulted " doesn't disqualify the UAE from being a moral preacher.  

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