Undermining Justice: The UAE’s Struggle with Judicial Independence, Human Rights, and Unfair Trials

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Undermining Justice: The UAE’s Struggle with Judicial Independence, Human Rights, and Unfair Trials

The rule of law in the UAE faces significant challenges in ensuring judicial independence, transparency, and equal access to justice for all citizens and residents. Systemic human rights violations, particularly regarding freedom of expression, thought, and association, remain major obstacles to fully upholding the principles of the rule of law. A notable example of this is UAE’s second-largest unfair mass trial which took place on 10 July 2024…