United Arab Emirates - Three netizens still held for tweeting about UAE 94 detainees

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the fate of the news providers still being held in the United Arab Emirates. They include the citizen-journalist Waleed Al-Shehhi, who has been detained since May and who is due to go on trial tomorrow. They are the victims of a year-old government crackdown on citizen-journalists and human rights activists who tried to provide information about the trial of 94 pro-reform activists (known as the “UAE 94”), who included many members of Al-Islah (...)

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