Showing posts with label UAE Terrorism Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UAE Terrorism Law. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 December 2014

United Arab Emirate: Terrorism Law Threatens Lives, Liberty

In the UAE it’s now a case of ‘you’re with us or you’re a terrorist. While the UAE proclaims to the world that it is leading the fight against extremist ideologies, it has empowered its courts to order the deaths of people they consider opponents of Islamic principles. The United Arab Emirates’ deeply flawed new counterterrorism law will enable the courts to convict peaceful government critics as terrorists and sentence them to death.