Emirates Centre for Human Rights
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The Emirates Centre for Human Rights (ECHR) is a non-governmental organization that promotes the defense of human rights in the United Arab Emirates.[1] The ECHR also engages in advocacy to “build strong relationships with media, parliaments and other relevant organizations outside the UAE” and has organized three meetings in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in July 2012, March and July 2013.[2]
The ECHR's website was originally registered to Malath Skahir, a former director of the Cordoba Foundation and the wife of Anas Altikriti, the current Cordoba Foundation chief executive and the key political lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain.[3] Former ECHR Director Rori Donaghy says that Altikriti helped to set up the ECHR but now has nothing to do with it.[4] As of 2015, Anas Mekdad is the director.[5]
The organisation has had widespread media coverage of its work uncovering alleged human rights abuse in the United Arab Emirates across the BBC,[6] Al Jazeera English,[7] Huffington Post,[8] and Wall Street Journal[9] among others.
References
- ^ "About Emirates Center for Human Rightsl". Emirates Centre for Human Rights. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "About Emirates Center for Human Rightsl". Emirates Centre for Human Rights. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "Terror-link group met in parliament". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "Terror-link group met in parliament". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ Gilligan, Andrew. "How the Muslim Brotherhood fits into a network of extremism". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- ^ "BBC News — UAE activist Waleed al-Shehhi 'jailed for trial tweets'". BBC News.
- ^ "UAE 'failing to tackle prison torture'".
- ^ "Indian Man Facing Death Penalty in the UAE Says He Was Tortured Into Confessing". The Huffington Post UK.
- ^ Rory Jones. "U.A.E. Attempts to Censor News Website in the U.S." WSJ.
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