UAE authorities have designated four prominent exiled dissidents as supporters of “terrorism” in a move that has further tightened the screws on activism in the Gulf state, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said on Sunday. Exiled Emirati activists Hamad Al-Shamsi, the executive director of the Emirati human rights organisation Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center and Mohammed Saqr Al-Zaabi, the former president of the Emirates Jurists Association – a prominent rights group until it was dissolved by authorities in 2011, were among the four declared as “supporters of terrorism” in September, HRW said. …

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