Five Activists Sentenced in U.A.E.

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    Five Activists Sentenced in U.A.E. - WSJ.com
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    A United Arab Emirates court sentenced five activists accused of publicly insulting the country’s rulers and of disrupting public order to jail terms of up to three years, bringing to a close a five-months-long trial that has polarized opinions in the oil-rich Gulf state on political participation and freedom of speech.

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      UAE president ’pardons jailed activists’
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      The United Arab Emirates has pardoned five activists who were convicted a day earlier for insulting the country’s leadership, according to a lawyer for the group.

      The men, who were arrested in April and had been on trial since June, had received jail sentences of between two and three years on Sunday;

      The main defendant, Ahmed Mansoor, a communications engineer and poet, was accused of running a website that provided a platform for the rest of the defendants to express alleged anti-government views.

      “The president issued a decree pardoning all of them,” said Mohammed al-Roken, the lawyer. “I hope they will be released before the end of the day.”

      The office of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan, the president, did not offer any immediate comment.

      The other defendants are Nasser bin Gaith, an economist who teaches at the Dubai branch of the Sorbonne University and activists Fahid Salim Dalk, Hassan Ali Khamis and Ahmed Abdul Khaleq.

      They were arrested after signing an online petition demanding political reforms, including free elections for parliament.

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