Rami Al-Mrayat, a young graduate from the Jordanian Aviation Academy arrived in the United Arab Emirates in 2009 to take up a job as a technician in the Gulf aircraft maintenance company in Abu Dhabi.

Following two visits to Iran in 2010 and 2011 to visit friends, Mr Al Mrayat was detained as he was moving back to Jordan to take up a new job as a pilot-trainee with the company "Jordan Aviation" in Amman.

On 19 November 2011, after having got his boarding pass at Abu Dhabi International Airport, he was told at the Passport Control desk that he was not allowed to leave the country. He was immediately taken away by agents of the State security services to his parents' flat where he was living.

There, the agents undertook a full search of the flat without having shown any warrant or official document. After two hours, they seized his belongings, informing his parents that they were taking him to "the hospitality home" and that he would be back at home within 24 hours.

Inside "the Hospitality home": sleep deprivation, beatings and electric shocks

What the agents called "the hospitality home" in front of Mr Al-Mrayat's parents had nothing hospitable: it was in fact a secret detention centre under the control of the Emirati security services. The young Jordanian did not spend 24 hours there, as the agents had suggested, but four and a half months being interrogated and tortured. Blindfolded, insulted, deprived from sleeping, electrocuted and beaten, Rami was severely tortured by the Emirati security services who forced him to sign confessions stating that he was spying on the UAE for Iran.

On 4 April 2012, Mr Al Mrayat was transferred to Al-Wathba prison in Abu Dhabi and for the first time had access to a lawyer.

Unfair trial: No material evidence, 5 year of imprisonment, no possibility of appeal

Rami Al-Mrayat's trial began on 28 May 2012. He was directly presented to the Supreme Federal Court in Abu Dhabi, without being deferred to a first instance Court. This direct deferral to the Supreme Federal Court was not motivated by the prosecution, and infringes articles 25 and 40 of the Emirati constitution.

Despite a complete search of Mr Al Mrayat's house, despite accusing Mr Al Mrayat of having regular contacts with Iranian agents, and despite the security service's assertions that they had been monitoring Mr Al Mrayat during a year and a half, the prosecution did not present any material evidence against Mr Al Mrayat to the Court. There were no recordings, no videos and no records of telephone calls made. The absence of any material evidence during the trial implies that Mr Al Mrayat was convicted solely on the basis of his confessions, which were extracted under the torture during his secret detention.

Furthermore, neither Mr Al Mrayat nor his lawyer were allowed to speak during any of the hearings. His lawyer was only able to submit a written memorandum at the beginning of the trial, meaning that Mr Al Mrayat was effectively not given the right to a defence.

After six hearings not exceeding 15 minutes each, the Court delivered its verdict on 30 July 2012, condemning Rami Al-Mrayat to five years of imprisonment. The victim's lawyer does not have the possibility to appeal the sentence of this tribunal as Article 67 of the Supreme Federal Court Law states that "sentences by the Supreme Court shall be final and binding on all and not subject to appeal by any of the methods of appeal, except in judgments in absentia in criminal matters". The impossibility of appealing the sentence contradicts the basic principles of international standards for a fair trial as well as article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.