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A policeman enters Dubai’s Al-Awir central prison in the United Arab Emirates, 21 May 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images The recent death of Jordanian journalist Tayseer Al-Najjar from health complications contracted during a prison term in the UAE has raised alarm over the fate of thirteen prisoners of conscience, including two women activists, who remain in Emirati prisons despite serving their sentences.
This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 22 February 2021.
On every religious or national occasion, the higher authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) issue decrees to pardon convicted prisoners, a tradition that has been in place since the establishment of the state in 1971. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) protests against the authorities’ continued failure to release prisoners of conscience, and to hold them long past the end of their sentences. One such prisoner, Jordanian
Soon, Sharjah taxis will have security cameras
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All 1,300 vehicles in Sharjah Taxi s fleet shall be equipped with cameras this year.
Cabs in Sharjah will soon be fitted with surveillance cameras in a project that is being rolled out this year, it was announced on Tuesday.
Sharjah Taxi said the cameras would first be installed in a number of its cabs in the experimental phase, before being applied to its entire fleet of 1,300 vehicles around the emirate.
This makes Sharjah the fourth emirate to equip its cabs with security cameras, following Abu Dhabi, Dubai and, recently, Ras Al Khaimah.