Jordanian journalist and poet, Tayseer al-Najjar, was arrested on 13 December 2015 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in connection with a comment he posted on his Facebook account in 2014. He has yet to be charged. He may be a prisoner of conscience detained for the peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of expression.
Tayseer Salman al-Najjar, aged 43, a journalist specialising in culture for the Abu Dhabi al-Dar newspaper, was about to travel to the Jordanian capital Amman to visit his family on 3 December 2015 when he was told at the airport that he was banned from leaving the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In the morning of 13 December, he received a phone call summoning him to attend the Security Department in Abu Dhabi at 7pm. He spoke to his wife, who was in Jordan, by phone just before he entered the building and was arrested shortly after.
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