The UAE7
It sounds like a new brand of underground superhero, and they may be to some - but this issue is one of much debate:
From the FT
From the FT
A group of Emirati Islamists stripped of their nationality for unspecified security concerns are launching legal action to overturn the government’s decision, criticised by a human rights group as “part of an unprecedented crackdown on peaceful dissent” in the Gulf state. Ali al-Hammadi, one of the seven, who are members of the Islamist Al-Islah group, said his lawyer had this week filed a case to a federal court in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, claiming the move was “illegal”.
This, on the day after Human Rights Watch provided much criticism of the UAE, particularly regarding the UAE5, the 5 bloggers who rose up a year ago as the voice of the UAE Arab Spring. They were quashed. And that didn't happen.


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