Emirati activists denied their right to peacefully demonstrate

Numerous human rights Emirati activists have repeatedly deplored the UAE government’s disregard for its international human rights obligations and its failure to act on recommendations from United Nations human rights experts.

Dozens of the activists, including prominent human rights defenders, judges, academics, and student leaders, have been arrested for exercising their basic right to peacefully demonstrate.

The calls urged the UAE government to end its continuing use of national security as a pretext to crackdown on peaceful activism and to stifle the free voices.

The UAE authorities have banned the right for demonstration in 2011 following the wave of uprisings in the Arab world, known as the Arab spring.