UAE Professor Nasser bin Ghaith Languishing in Prison
Updated June 25, 2020 Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) joins other human rights organizations in calling on the Emirati government, amid the global threat posed by COVID-19, to release the Emirati Professor and economist Nasser bin Ghaith. Though UAE released a number of prisoners in early March 2020, imprisoned scholars and students—many of whom are older and suffer from underlying medical conditions—were excluded from the decrees. We urge the Emirati Government to relea