{"id":369625,"date":"2021-11-01T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=21332"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:03:38","slug":"brian-dooley-on-whats-happening-behind-the-uaes-public-relations-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/01\/brian-dooley-on-whats-happening-behind-the-uaes-public-relations-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Dooley on What\u2019s Happening Behind the UAE\u2019s Public Relations Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a podcast of 29 October, 2021 Brian Dooley<\/strong> [see also:https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2020\/05\/13\/brian-dooley-to-advice-mary-lawlor\/<\/a>] takes to task the Emirates who continue to hold Ahmed Mansoor in detention. [see: https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/tag\/ahmed-mansoor\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years, the United Arab Emirates has been one of Washington\u2019s most repressive military allies. Its brutal targeting of human rights defenders, its leadership role with Saudi Arabia in the war on Yemen, and its crushing of any internal political dissent has made it a focus<\/a> of Human Rights First\u2019s advocacy for a decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I visited the Emirates for Human Rights First in 2015 to research how bad things were<\/a>, and things have only become worse — the few activists who weren\u2019t intimidated into silence in 2015 have now been pushed into exile or sentenced to long terms in prison.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington continues to enable the Emirates\u2019 dictatorship with weapons and political support; in April the Biden administration confirmed<\/a> it would proceed with a $23 billion arms deal. But having powerful friends in Washington, and pushing Dubai\u2019s glitzy image of tourism and shopping, can\u2019t hide the reality of what really happens in the UAE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click below or listen here<\/a><\/strong> to my appearance on a podcast by the European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR) for more on what\u2019s happening in the UAE behind their PR mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4ax316cIyNvRqKdeBM6EuT?utm_source=generator&theme=<\/a><\/p>\n\n

This post was originally published on Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a podcast of 29 October, 2021 Brian Dooley [see also:https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2020\/05\/13\/brian-dooley-to-advice-mary-lawlor\/] takes to task the Emirates who continue to hold Ahmed Mansoor in detention. [see: https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/tag\/ahmed-mansoor\/] For many years, the United Arab Emirates has been one of Washington\u2019s most repressive military allies. Its brutal targeting of human rights defenders, its leadership role with Saudi Arabia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1643,35218,9555,37733,6,1424,1541,631,34744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369626,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369625\/revisions\/369626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}