Please read this carefully, so when next you travel to Dubai (UAE) you'll not pass your boundary. As much as you would find them friendly, you'll also find this very wicked act in them, especially their prison officials. Kirikiri prison is far better than Dubai Prison

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There’s no justice in the UAE – I learned that in a Dubai prison
David Haigh

The case of the British academic Matthew Hedges, like mine, shows the British government must take a much harder line
Fri 23 Nov 2018 14.25 GMT



She joins a long list of victims and their families who assumed the British government would go into bat for them, only to be sorely disappointed.



The plight of Hedges, who was convicted of spying and given a life prison sentence, evokes my own experience. When I was lured to Dubai in 2014 and thrown into prison without charge, I eagerly awaited the first visit of officials from the British embassy. Yet all I got were two non-Brits hired by a diplomatic staffing agency, and all they said they could do was ensure I was being treated reasonably and getting adequate food.

There was no attempt to protest about the disregard of all basic judicial principles. They even failed by their own remit, as they didn’t get me the food I needed (I’d just had stomach surgery).

The conditions I was kept in were, at times, appalling. There were beatings, I was raped and at one stage a guard said to me, “Be careful, British prisoners die here.” It was hot, there was overcrowding, and access to lawyers and other personal representatives was often limited to a few minutes a week, with a guard listening in.


In my 22 months’ incarceration, I had one humane head of prison, but he was quickly demoted to a lesser jail after trumped-up charges were levelled alleging he had taken bribes. The authorities clearly don’t want prisoners to be treated humanely.

Others have had the same experience of Gulf justice, along with the advice from the British embassy that it would be unwise to go public as this would only antagonise the Emiratis.

When I got out and started campaigning to help others held in Dubai, we knocked that on the head. High-profile cases such those of Jamie Harron, Billy Barclay and Ellie Holman were ultimately successful because we did go public, and in a way that threatened Dubai’s reputation as a tourism destination. Harron and Barclay were “pardoned” for crimes they didn’t commit, which sticks in the craw, but at least we got them out.

It was clear the embassy’s credo was that the plight of a few individuals shouldn’t be allowed to hamper the UK’s good trading relations with the UAE, but the Hedges case suggests the government’s appeasement has achieved nothing. Publicity isn’t an issue here – this is now a global story – but the Emiratis still refuse to be embarrassed into releasing Hedges – conceding only on Friday that they were considering the family’s appeal for


In fairness, Jeremy Hunt is saying all the right things. It’s refreshing to hear Britain’s top diplomat talking tough, though where it will lead to depends on how much he’s willing to back up his words with deeds.

There are four things the government should be doing.

First, revise its travel advice. The UAE’s economy depends heavily on tourism, but people who go there have no idea that if they fall foul of the law they can’t rely on internationally accepted norms of justice. You sup with the devil when you go to the Emirates, and the foreign office should make this clear. (That includes urging Emirates airline to warn passengers that if they drink on a flight they could easily be arrested when they land in Dubai.)

Second, revise its investment guidance. The UK still encourages firms to invest in Emirati companies with the implicit assumption that they face fair business conditions. Again, the judicial situation makes it a highly risky country to do business with.

Third, suspend Britain’s extradition treaty with the UAE. British judges have made a succession of judgments confirming that UK nationals won’t get a fair trial in the UAE, yet we still have an extradition treaty under which the Emirates apply to get people they don’t like sent to face show trials, such as the five-minute Hedges hearing this week. And because we give people fair trials here, extradition requests cost the British taxpayer millions.

Fourth, stop British judges from taking retirement postings in the UAE. It is little appreciated that when British judges retire they can pick up lucrative part-time work in the Dubai finance courts, yet they merely reinforce the unjust Dubai legal system by giving it a respectability it doesn’t deserve.

Of one thing we can be sure: the treatment of Hedges and others is not anti-British. The UAE is as vicious with its own citizens as it is with foreigners, as the case of Sheikha Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, shows. Earlier this year she came to us for help as she tried to escape Dubai, citing years of abuse and torture in the royal palace, and got as far as Indian coastal waters before UAE troops violently kidnapped her and took her back to Dubai. She hasn’t been seen since.

Her story, and that of the kidnap of her sister Sheikha Shamsa in the UK, will feature in a BBC2 documentary on 6 December. It confirms that we’re dealing with a vicious regime acting with impunity, similar to that in Saudi Arabia but with better PR. Getting rid of that regime will not happen overnight, but the cases of Latifa, Hedges, me and many others dictate that we should give the UAE no support, and the British government should take the hardest possible line in both its advice to UK nationals and its dealings with the Emiratis.

• David Haigh is the former managing director of Leeds United, a lawyer and a justice campaigner

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/23/justice-uae-dubai-british-academic-matthew-hedges

The Arabs are extremely wicked people.
We can see what Saudi Arabia is doing to her citizen, see why Qatar has been isolated by the world and now see the wickedness in UAE, Dubai.

The Arabs can kill anyone, so be extremely careful when you visit UAE. See what the ruler of UAE did to his two daughters

The UAE is as vicious with its own citizens as it is with foreigners, as the case of Sheikha Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, shows. Earlier this year she came to us for help as she tried to escape Dubai, citing years of abuse and torture in the royal palace, and got as far as Indian coastal waters before UAE troops violently kidnapped her and took her back to Dubai. She hasn’t been seen since.

Her story, and that of the kidnap of her sister Sheikha Shamsa in the UK, will feature in a BBC2 documentary on 6 December. It confirms that we’re dealing with a vicious regime acting with impunity, similar to that in Saudi Arabia but with better PR. Getting rid of that regime will not happen overnight, but the cases of Latifa, Hedges, me and many others dictate that we should give the UAE no support, and the British government should take the hardest possible line in both its advice to UK nationals and its dealing with the Emirates

Ruler of Dubai may have killed his own daughter.

The funny aspect is that Both the US and Britain whose citizens are worst affected are playing politics of oil and favour.

Terrible world

Not everything that glitters is gold.

If you think Ikoyi Prison, Alagbon Prison, Kuje Prison and Kirikiri Maximum prison is bad, try commit offense in the Arab territories. If you survive, your life would never remain same again

The former Leeds United managing director David Haigh has claimed he was repeatedly tortured and abused while in prison accused of fraud in Dubai.

Haigh, released from 23 months of detention last month, said he had experienced five “serious episodes” of physical abuse, and witnessed the torture of other inmates. The authorities in Dubai have yet to comment on his allegations.

Haigh was arrested in Dubai in May 2014 after being accused of fraud by his former employer, the Dubai-based private equity group GFH Capital, which bought Leeds in 2012. It was alleged that he had faked invoices and illegally channelled money to bank accounts he controlled – claims strenously denied by Haigh, who said he was set up.

He was due to be released on 16 November last year, but on 14 November he was charged with slandering a business partner in a tweet written eight months earlier. He was acquitted and released in March.

davodyguy:
If you think Ikoyi Prison, Alagbon Prison, Kuje Prison and Kirikiri Maximum prison is bad, try commit offense in the Arab territories. If you survive, your life would never remain same again

Anything Arab, I don't want to hear it. Not even north in Nigeria here. The more u kill, theore virgin you get.

They're heartless people

That's Arab for you.... Islam doesn't teach them anything....

obonujoker:
That's Arab for you.... Islam doesn't teach them anything....

Because of politics, Donald Trump kept quiet, same with the British PM against humanity right abuses.

The Journalist's murder would go in vain. A sanction on Saudi means oil price would go up