Sarah Leah Whitson Profile picture
Executive Director of DAWN @dawnmenaorg Formerly ED of MENA Division at Human Rights Watch

Jul 18, 2020, 5 tweets

A welcome development to see #UAE crown prince #MBZ used for torture in #France by #Yemen victims. No more chateau and fine wine excursions to Paris for the emir 😢 france24.com/en/20200717-ab…

@hrw and others extensively documented the role of UAE forces - under command and responsibility of MBZ - along w their proxies in torturing Yemenis:

hrw.org/news/2017/06/2…

And ofc the US knew about these #UAE torture centers in #yemen and interrogated prisoners there anyway.

apnews.com/4925f7f0fa6548…

Super nice stuff the UAE did to Yemenis: “Prisoners in these centers were “crammed into shipping containers smeared with feces & blindfolded for weeks,” beaten, and trussed up on a “grill” – a spit like a roast to which the victim is tied and spun in a circle of fire”.

So now some of this feces is being slapped right back at #MBZ in the case filed against him in #France. You have super bad karma MBZ, and human rights activists are always gonna be after you.

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