“UAE94” detainee Sultan bin Kayed Mohammed al-Qasimi facing new charges of terrorism during the "UAE87" trial
Timeline
January 11, 2024: the fourth hearing takes place with no media coverage, with reports of torture according to EDAC.
December 19, 2023: MENA Rights Group and EDAC request the urgent intervention of the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights.
December 7, 2023: Al-Qasimi’s trial before the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal starts, as part of a new mass trial.
December 1, 2023: Al-Qasimi is able to call his family from an unidentified facility of the State Security Apparatus (SSA).
September 12, 2023: MENA Rights Group requests the urgent intervention of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
June 12, 2023: Al-Qasimi makes his last phone call to his family from within al-Razeen Prison.
March 30, 2023: The WGAD adopts an Opinion recognising that his detention under the Munasaha regime is arbitrary and violates several provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
September 7, 2022: MENA Rights Group and the Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center seize the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD).
August 18, 2022: Together with the Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center, MENA Rights Group requests the intervention of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and the Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights to urge Emirati authorities to release him unconditionally.
March 2022: Al-Qasimi finishes his 10-year prison sentence. However, on the pretext of “rehabilitation needs”, he is currently still held at al-Razeen prison under the “counselling” regime regulated by the Counter-Terrorism Law and the Munasaha Centre Law.
July 2, 2013: Al-Qasimi is sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
March 4, 2013: Al-Qasimi’s trial before the State Security Chamber within the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi begins.
April 20, 2012: Al-Qasimi is arrested from his home in Ras al-Khaimah.
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