Major General Ahmed Nasser al-Risi was charged with “brutal torture” of Emirati dissident Ahmad Mansour, who has been detained in UAE prisons since March 2017.
On Monday (June 7th), a lawsuit was filed against a senior Emirati security official and representative of the International Criminal Police Executive Committee (Interpol) for torturing Ahmed Mansour, an Emirati dissident who has been detained for more than four years in UAE prisons. , was presented to the Paris Criminal Court.
The Persian Gulf Center for Human Rights has filed a lawsuit in the Paris Criminal Court, accusing General Ahmed Nasser al-Risi of “brutal torture” of Emirati dissident Ahmad Mansour,and who has been detained in the UAE since March 2017.
Ahmed Mansour, an Emirati human rights activist, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to 10 years in prison the following year for allegedly criticizing the UAE government and tarnishing his country’s image on social media.
He has been held in solitary confinement in Al-Sadr Prison since March 20, 2017, in conditions contrary to international standards and law. The monitoring of the UAE security forces in the torture of Ahmad Mansour has been proven.
According to the NGO, al-Risi oversees the growing repression of human rights, freedoms and its defenders and activists, led by Ahmad Mansour in the UAE.
