Archive: uae

25th August 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
Legal moves in money-laundering case GNRD seeks access to documents GNRD, the Emirati-funded human rights organisation suspected of money-laundering, and Loai Deeb, its founder/president, went to court in Norway yesterday seeking information about the evidence against them. They… Read more
21st August 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
"Consultant" Loai Deeb consulted other consultants' websites UAE's cut-and-paste consulting firm Plagiarism raises questions about Deeb's company   Deeb Consulting FZF is a company based in the tax-free zone of Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Its sole proprietor is… Read more
18th August 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
Salem Humaid, founder of al-Mezmaah Studies and Research Center in Dubai which donated money to GNRD The Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) is a strange human rights organisation based in Norway and founded by a man who once ran a fake university. I have been investigating its… Read more
26th July 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
Continued from previous page GNRD and the Lord of Scientology 25 July 2016: GNRD, the strange "human rights" organisation that was declared bankrupt earlier this month, had an unusually favourable view of human rights in the UAE. It was also on friendly terms with Egypt's Sisi… Read more
17th July 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
Continued from previous page Loai Deeb and a $534,000 villa in Amman GNRD chief 'asked if Jordan enforces money-laundering laws' 17 July 2015: Loai Deeb, founder-president of the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD), asked the deputy head of his Jordan office to find… Read more
14th July 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
Following police raids at its headquarters and at the home of its founder-president, the Norwegian-based Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) is trying to create the impression that a large-scale international campaign is under way, rallying to its support. Although GNRD is recognised… Read more
3rd July 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
GNRD supporters demonstrating outside UN headquarters in Geneva on Monday Considering that the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) claims to be a human rights NGO, it has some very strange supporters. The latest move in the campaign to defend GNRD against its critics is a fake page on… Read more
1st July 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
Several Facebook pages have appeared during the last few days which seem to have the sole purpose of making defamatory allegations about me. These include claims that I am paid by Qatar to write nice things about it, that I am spying for Qatar and that I was fired from the Guardian for passing… Read more
27th June 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
The 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently under way in Geneva, has turned into a platform for some disgraceful lobbying in support of the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) – the strange quasi-NGO that Norwegian authorities are investigating on suspicion of money-… Read more
24th June 2015
By: Brian Whitaker
The Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) issued a press release yesterday in response to accusations of money laundering. GNRD's head office in Stavanger and the home of its founder-president, Loai Deeb, were raided by Norwegian police at the end of May. Deeb was arrested and… Read more