Amnesty International
The UAE authorities have prevented prominent human rights defender and blogger Ahmed Mansoor
from going to an award ceremony, by arbitrarily imposing a travel ban.
He is a finalist for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders,
and has been invited to attend the award ceremony in the Swiss city of
Geneva on 6 October.
The
UAE authorities have refused to return his passport, which they
confiscated when he was arbitrarily arrested in 2011, so he will be
prevented from attending the award ceremony in Geneva. They have given
him contradictory reasons for failing to return it. Both the travel ban
and the confiscation of his passport violate Ahmed Mansoor’s right under
international human rights law to freedom of movement, as these
measures were taken to punish him for his peaceful human rights
activism. He is one of the few people in the UAE speaking out about
human rights violations in the country.
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