{"id":398534,"date":"2021-11-20T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/uae-nominee-interpol-ahmed-naser-al-raisi-torture-claims"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T17:25:29","slug":"he-is-responsible-for-torture-nominee-for-interpol-chief-accused-by-detained-britons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/20\/he-is-responsible-for-torture-nominee-for-interpol-chief-accused-by-detained-britons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He is responsible for torture\u2019: nominee for Interpol chief accused by detained Britons"},"content":{"rendered":"

An academic and a football fan who were held in the United Arab Emirates claim Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi oversaw physical abuse<\/p>

Two British men formerly detained in United Arab Emirates are campaigning to prevent a senior Emirati official from becoming the next president of Interpol, accusing him of personal involvement in their arrests and torture.<\/p>

Academic Matthew Hedges, who was imprisoned in the UAE for seven months, and football fan Ali Issa Ahmad, detained while on holiday in Dubai<\/a> for wearing a Qatar football shirt, accuse Major General Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi of overseeing their detention and physical abuse.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An academic and a football fan who were held in the United Arab Emirates claim Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi oversaw physical abuseTwo British men formerly detained in United Arab Emirates are campaigning to prevent a senior Emirati official from becoming the n…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11217,1258,2720,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398534"}],"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\/4998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398535,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398534\/revisions\/398535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}