UAE: Woman Prisoner Reportedly Attempts Suicide

Expand Dubai's skyline, United Arab Emirates. © 2015 REUTERS/Karim Sahib/Pool (Beirut) – Emirati authorities should immediately and transparently investigate the prison conditions of a 21-year-old imprisoned Emirati woman who is reported to have recently attempted suicide, Human Rights Watch said today. Sources close to the woman say that prison authorities subjected her and a second Emirati woman prisoner, 37, to solitary confinement for at least three weeks and denied them adequate medical care. The woman, Maryam al-Balushi, and the second prisoner, Amina al-Abdouli, are serving five-year…

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