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World Report 2023: United Arab Emirates | Human Rights Watch

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UK MPs call on UAE to release 14 detainees including British nati

British politicians have signed a petition calling on the UK government to put pressure on the United Arab Emirates to release 14 individuals who have been detained in Emirati prisons after serving their full sentences. MPs Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat and Desmond Swayne, Conservative, are some of the eight Members of Parliament who signed the petition, launched by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. One of the individuals currently in a UAE prison is 54-year-old British national Michael Bryan Smith, despite completing the end of his prison term. Human rights activists say they are being held without any legal basis - meaning they are being kept in arbitrary detention.

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UK government accused of abandoning British man with HIV imprisoned in UAE

UK government accused of abandoning British man with HIV imprisoned in UAE Samuel Lovett © Provided by The Independent The government has been accused of abandoning a British man with HIV, who has been locked up for more than a decade on a six-year criminal sentence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) despite having been pardoned in 2014. International United Nations Watch (IUNW), a UK human-rights group, has written to parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights to raise the case of 54-year-old Michael Smith, who was first detained in 2009 in Thailand before being extradited to the UAE in 2011. Mr Smith was initially arrested on charges of stealing £100 million from a property firm owned by the emirate’s vice president and prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This charge was later reduced to £500,000.

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UAE: Detention of UK National Appears Arbitrary

Due Process Violations Mar Extradition, Court Proceedings Michael Bryan Smith of England talks to reporters from the detention room at the criminal court in Bangkok, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. © 2010 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit (Beirut) – United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have held a UK national in detention for more than 10 years on a 6-year criminal sentence despite having pardoned him in 2014, Human Rights Watch said today. Prison authorities have denied Michael Bryan Smith, 54, regular and uninterrupted access to critical medication and adequate health care throughout his detention. UAE authorities should review Smith’s case and disclose the basis of his continued detention. If there are no outstanding legal sentences or claims against him, they should release him immediately. Both his extradition and court proceedings appear tainted by due process violations and his detention at least for the past six years appears to be arbitrary and

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