How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist

Hussain, Murtaza

http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/21/uae-tried-silence-popular-arab-spring-activist/

Publisher: The Intercept
Date Written: 21/10/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX16838

Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.

Subject Headings

Arab Spring
Political Repression
United Arab Emirates