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United Arab Emirates 

2016

Hard times for GNRD 
Is rights group's Emirati funding drying up? (13 February 2016) 

Dubai fire: a question of cladding (1 January 2016)


2015

Carole Samaha returns to GNRD (29 November 2015)

GNRD and the Indian guru (19 October 2015)

Death of GNRD 'high commissioner' (18 October 2015) 

Police raid UAE-linked rights group – again (7 October 2015) 

Warning to GNRD donors (4 October 2015) 

Sentence on GNRD 'commissioner' confirmed (2 October 2015) 

Bribery claim in GNRD 'money-laundering' case (4 September 2015)

Legal moves in money-laundering case (25 August 2015)

UAE's cut-and-paste consulting firm (21 August 2015)

UAE payment to suspect rights group confirmed (20 August 2015)

Move to expel Norwegian TV from Egypt (19 August 2015)

Source of GNRD's funding revealed (18 August 2015)

Dahlan's son 'released after UAE drugs arrest' (9 August 2015)

GNRD appears on Kurdish TV (28 July 2015) 

Same man, two names (18 July 2015) 

Loai Deeb and his villa in Amman (17 July 2015) 

Suspect rights group buys support (14 July 2015) 

GNRD and homophobia (3 July 2015) 

Nobbled by Qatar? (2 July 2015) 

Online harassment resumes (1 July 2015) 

GNRD and Syria (30 June 2015) 

Shameful antics in Geneva (27 June 2015) 

GNRD responds to laundering accusations (24 June 2015) 

GNRD and Palestine (23 June 2015) 

Gone but not forgotten (21 June 2015) 

Dahlan said to be funding GNRD (20 June 2015) 

GNRD to host meetings at UN (19 June 2015) 

Suspect rights group GNRD fights back (18 June 2015) 

GNRD 'to sue Norway for $2 billion' (17 June 2015) 

Loai Deeb and his 'collaborators' (16 June 2015) 

A junket in Geneva (15 June 2015) 

Is this the end for GNRD? (13 June 2015) 

Combating terrorism, the GNRD way (12 June 2015) 

Hobnobbing with Sisi (11 June 2015) 

UAE: a human rights paradise (3 June 2015) 

Human rights league table goes missing (30 April 2015)

Journalist tells of harassment in UAE (1 April 2015) 

Critics of UAE face new harassment (28 March 2015) 

University signs deal with GNRD (18 March 2015) 

The smears turn nastier (13 March 2015) 

Scientology and women's rights (11 March 2015) 

Scientologists provide human rights training (9 March 2015) 

Banned politician monitored Egypt's election (8 March 2015) 

GNRD's 'High Commissioner' sentenced (8 March 2015) 

The price of criticising the UAE (26 February 2015)

Faking it on Twitter (23 February 2015)

Twitter antics (22 February 2015)

Mystery group defends UAE's rights record (21 February 2015)

Wrestling with sex in the UAE (12 February 2015)

Grand designs in Geneva (9 February 2015)


2014

Fake university man aims to sort out Yemen (30 October 2014)

Abuse of domestic workers (25 October 2014)

Common ground: the UAE and ISIS (22 October 2014)

An odd organisation (6 September 2014)

Britons missing in Qatar (4 September 2014) 

Blair versus the Brotherhood (3 July 2014)

Blaming the Muslim Brotherhood (21 June 2014)

UN investigator criticises UAE justice system ( February 2014)


2013

American detained without trial in UAE (27 November 2013)

Can the private sector save Gulf monarchies? (6 August 2013) 

Dubai's ruler pardons himself (23 July 2013) 

Demonising the opposition (11 July 2013) 

Migrant workers in Dubai face deportation (26 May 2013) 

Britain's friends in the Emirates (6 March 2013)

Bahrain thanks UAE for banning speaker (27 February 2013)

Conference speaker banned from UAE (23 February 2013)


2012

The 'crime' of cross-dressing in the Emirates (19 December 2012)

Internet survives as Dubai conference collapses (15 December 2012)

Spinning the UAE (12 December 2012)

Self-inflicted wounds in the UAE (11 December 2012)

Arab regimes' new threat to internet (8 December 2012)

UAE goes to war against the internet (13 November 2012)


2010

Dubai: 'Illicit sex' in the sea (28 July 2011)

UAE's 'preventive' crackdown (3 May 2011)

Falconry: a worthy heritage? (19 November 2010)

Al-Qaeda and the Dubai plane crash (6 November 2010)

Safety in the heat (16 June 2010)

Sex and the City and the UAE (19 May 2010)

'Vote-buying' in poetry contest (19 April, 2010)

Coq au vin, Dubai style (23 March 2010)

Abu Dhabi tackles domestic abuse (18 March 2010)

The economics of free expression (10 March 2010)

Lesbianism shocks the Emirates (15 February 2010)

The innocence of Sheikh Issa (11 January 2010)


2009

In Dubai, they still don't get it (9 December 2009)

'Indecency' in the UAE (23 November 2009)

Coming soon: female muftis (6 November 2009)

Man 'claimed to be Jesus' (29 September 2009)

Jailed for five-star sex (23 September 2009)

Banking on the abaya (23 August 2009)

Falconry: an ignoble sport (9 August 2009)

Sex and Dubai Studio City (7 August 2009)

 

     

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