Search results for "Ahmed Mansoor"

Dear Andy Burnham, name a street in Manchester after Ahmed Mansoor

 Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater Manchester Manchester, UK [email protected] 31 May 2018 Dear Mayor Burnham, The undersigned organisations are writing to you to request your support for the release of the award-winning Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, sentenced this week to ten years in prison for his human rights activism. We believe that this […]
2018-05-31

International voices call on UAE to release Ahmed Mansoor

 Index on Censorship joins an international coalition calling on the government of the United Arab Emirates to free Ahmed Mansoor.
2017-06-27

Rights advocates call on UAE to release Ahmed Mansoor (Al Jazeera)

 Political and human rights advocates call for the release of Ahmed Mansoor, who has spent 100 days in UAE detention. Read the full article
2017-06-26

David Kaye: The other travel ban

 Governments are imposing travel bans to deny the spread of information about the state of repression and corruption in their home countries.
2017-11-22

#IndexAwards2017: Bill Marczak uncovered the selling of iPhone spyware to corrupt governments

 While still a PhD student, the activist exposed the first known zero-day remote jailbreak, which made it possible to control any iPhone
2017-04-06

United Arab Emirates: Stop the charade and release activists convicted at the mass UAE 94 trial

 On the second anniversary of the start of the mass “UAE 94” trial that imprisoned dozens of government critics and reform activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including prominent human rights defenders, judges, academics, and student leaders, a coalition of 13 organizations calls on the UAE government to release immediately and unconditionally all those […]
2015-03-03

UAE blogger and activist beaten

 Prominent UAE blogger Ahmed Mansoor says that he was beaten by an unidentified man on 17 September. Mansoor was attacked as he was approaching his car at Ajman University of Science and Technology, where he studies law. The attacker knocked Mansoor to the ground and began punching him, but ran away once people entered the […]
2012-09-19

UAE 5 still face restrictions after pardon

 Five political activists now released after being pardoned by the Emirati president still face challenges after their release. Sara Yasin reports
2012-01-11

Jail sentences commuted in “UAE 5” case

 Index on Censorship joins a coalition of seven rights groups in calling for the convictions of the "UAE 5" activists to be expunged
2011-11-30

UAE 5 jail sentences a stain on Abu Dhabi's independence celebrations

 Rohan Jayasekera: UAE 5 jail sentences a stain on Abu Dhabi's independence celebrations
2011-11-28

International rights groups condemn unfair trial of UAE 5

 Index on Censorship and six other international rights groups call for the five activists known as the UAE 5 to be released from detention and the charges against them to be dropped
2011-11-03

Bahrain: Wife of UK-based Bahraini human rights defender convicted as reprisals escalate

 A Bahraini Criminal Court convicted and sentenced Duaa Alwadaei in absentia to two months in prison for allegedly insulting a public institution.
2018-03-21