Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi has been imprisoned in the UAE for almost a year for criticising Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governments
The UN special rapporteur on torture is being urged to investigate Lebanon’s role in the treatment of the Egyptian-Turkish poet and activist Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi, a dissident who has been imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates for more than 10 months over a post he made on social media.
Legal counsel representing Qaradawi filed a complaint to the UN rapporteur on Thursday, asking it to examine the situation.
Qaradawi was arrested by Lebanese authorities after he returned from Syria in December 2024, where he went to celebrate the fall of the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
While there, he posted a video on social media in which he criticised the Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governments and said he hoped they would suffer the same fate as the Assad regime.
