UAE, Dubai ruled by assholes
ABC News Exclusive: Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh
By VIC WALTER, REHAB EL-BURI, ANGELA HILL and BRIAN ROSS
April 22, 2009
A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails. An investigation into a savage torture by a royal family member of a close ally.
A man in a UAE police uniform is seen on the tape tying the victim's arms and legs, and later holding him down as the Sheikh pours salt on the man's wounds and then drives over him with his Mercedes SUV.
In a statement to ABC News, the UAE Ministry of the Interior said it had reviewed the tape and acknowledged the involvement of Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, brother of the country's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed.
"The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior," the Interior Ministry's statement declared.
The Minister of the Interior is also one of Sheikh Issa's brother.
The government statement said its review found "all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department."
"If this is their complete reply, then sadly it's a scam and it's a sham," said Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch.
It's 4 pages so I thought that's a little long to post the entire thing.
Also, foreign workers come to Dubai; live as indentured servants for dollars an hour. Unsurprisingly, unions and strikes are illegal. To even get the story, ABC had to sign permits on whatever they were to film or talk about because Dubai was afraid it would hurt tourism.
Also also: French boy is raped, has to flee country due to charges of being homosexual and asking for it.