UAE jails activist for 10 years over social media posts
RIYADH: prominent Emirati activist Ahmed Mansoor has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined 1 million AED ($272,000) on fees of criticising the United Arab Emirates government on social media, The countrywide newspaper stated past due on Wednesday.
A trade and tourism hub, the UAE is an absolute monarchy that tolerates little public grievance of its ruling device and has prosecuted Mansoor and different seasoned-democracy activists for making what it referred to as insulting feedback approximately the u . s .’s leaders.
Mansoor turned into among 5 activists convicted of these prices in 2011 amid the Arab Spring protests calling for reform in different Arab states.
Mansoor, an electrical engineer and poet, became arrested in March 2017 and accused of promoting a sectarian and hate-incited agenda. The courtroom cleared him of terrorist-related expenses, according to The country wide.
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