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| UAE rights activist Ahmed Mansoor appeals 10-year sentence |
| 2018-10-02 |
| [Al Jazeera] Prominent Emirati rights activist Ahmed Mansoor has filed a Supreme Court appeal in a bid to overturn a 10-year prison sentence handed to him earlier this year over several Twitter posts. Mansoor was sentenced in May by Abu Dhabi's Federal Appeals Court for "defaming the UAE through social media channels". A father of four, Mansoor was also fined 1 million Dirhams ($270,000) for insulting the status and prestige of the UAE and its symbols, including its leaders. Several international rights groups, including a number of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. bodies, the EU Parliament's subcommittee on Human Rights, According to Joe Odell, the campaigns manager for the International Campaign for Freedom in the UAE (ICFUAE), since the instituting of the cybercrime law in 2012, there has yet to be a precedent where a rights activist has successfully appealed their sentence. "Under new laws in the UAE, Mansoor is entitled to appeal the verdict," Odell told Al Jazeera. "Since the appeal process is held in the same court, it is unlikely that the process will be a fair and independent one," he added. |
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