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UAE: Amendments to Penal Code Put Fundamental Rights and Freedoms at Risk

UAE: Amendments to Penal Code Put Fundamental Rights and Freedoms at Risk

On 18 September 2016, the Emirati President issued Decree Law No. 7 of 2016 amending the UAE Penal Code (PC). The decree, which amends 132 existing articles and adds 34 new articles to the PC, endangers basic rights including the right to life and the right to freedom of opinion and expression as well as the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

UAE: Syrian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison after an Unfair Trial

UAE: Acquittal of Libyan Canadian Salim Alaradi and his co-accused after 642 days in detention

UAE - Reports

UAE: Human Rights Council 2015 - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul

UAE: Universal Periodic Review 2012 - Alkarama's UPR Submission for 2012

UAE: Universal Periodic Review 2008: UN Compilation Report

UAE - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

No

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 19.07.2012
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): No
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Overdue since 19.10.2013 (1^st)
Last concluding observations: -

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 11.2013 (2^nd cycle)
Next review: -

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

No