WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — UAE State Security officers arrested bin Ghaith at his work in Abu Dhabi, and took him to his home in Dubai, the statement said.
"[B]in Ghaith’s whereabouts must be immediately disclosed and he must be released," Amnesty International Middle East Program Director Said Boumedouha said in the statement released on Thursday. "We fear [he] is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of the country’s State Security body."
Bin Ghaith was previously arrested in April 2011 and charged alongside four other activists with "publicly insulting" the UAE’s President, Vice-President and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in comments posted on an online discussion forum, Amnesty International noted.
He had signed a petition just weeks earlier with a group of leading UAE citizens calling for political reform, including the right to vote in parliamentary elections, the statement added.
Amnesty International claims three million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries, and works to protect human rights around the world, according to the organization’s web site.
