Monday, July 16, 2012

Rights group: UAE deports activist to Thailand in widening crackdown on dissent

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rights-group-uae-deports-activist-to-thailand-after-revoking-citizenship/2012/07/16/gJQA73dPoW_story.html

The United Arab Emirates deported an online activist to Thailand on Monday after stripping him of his right to live in the country, part of a widening crackdown on alleged challenges to the state since the Arab Spring uprisings, a rights group said.

The deportee did not have any reported connection to Thailand, but was a member of one of a number of families who have lived for generations in the Emirates who have never been given full citizenship.

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