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After two weeks of official silence and media speculation, the whereabouts of former Spanish king Juan Carlos I were confirmed this week.
He is in the United Arab Emirates, where human rights conditions are dire.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/21/former-spanish-king-finds-new-home-uae
He is in the United Arab Emirates, where human rights conditions are dire.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/21/former-spanish-king-finds-new-home-uae
2/ Why do we say that?
Over the past 15 years, @hrw has repeatedly documented serious and systemic human rights abuses in the UAE: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates
Over the past 15 years, @hrw has repeatedly documented serious and systemic human rights abuses in the UAE: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates
3/ Emirati authorities have been engaged in a sustained assault on freedom of expression and association in the country since 2011, detaining + forcibly disappearing individuals who criticize them.
Among those is Ahmed Mansoor (human rights advocate): https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/18/after-nabeel-rajab-time-uae-free-ahmed-mansoor
Among those is Ahmed Mansoor (human rights advocate): https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/18/after-nabeel-rajab-time-uae-free-ahmed-mansoor
4/ UAE laws also continue to discriminate against:
- women
- LGBT people
- and migrants (who represent more than 80 percent of the UAE’s population).
- women
- LGBT people
- and migrants (who represent more than 80 percent of the UAE’s population).
5/ Unlike Juan Carlos I, who could easily enter the country, migrant workers are subject to a visa-sponsorship system that ties their visas, and therefore their stay in the country, to their employers.
