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Geneva
The UK police are actively investigating a group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials for torture and cruel treatment inflicted on several Qatari nationals, a human rights lawyer has said.
According to a Al Jazeera report, the Emiratis may be questioned and arrested if they were to enter the UK under the principle of universal jurisdiction, says Rodney Dixon, a barrister at Temple Garden Chambers representing three Qatari nationals, who were imprisoned and tortured between 2013 and 2015 in Emirati prisons.
"We provided information about 10 suspects. All of them are Emiratis in official positions who were either directly involved in acts of torture or were superiors in charge, who failed to prevent torture to happen under their chain of command," Dixon told Al Jazeera on Monday.
The three Qatari nationals ” Mahmoud al Jaidah, Hamed al Hammadi and Yousef al Mulla ” were taken into custody and held without charge by the UAE authorities at different times between 2013 and 2015.
Speaking to the press in Geneva, Mahmoud al Jaidah, a 56-year-old medical practitioner at Qatar Petroleum, said he was arrested at Dubai airport and held without charge for 27 months between February 2013 and May 2015.
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