United Arab Emirates (UAE): Further information on imminent flogging / prisoner of conscience and new concern: ill-treatment: Elie Dib Ghalib

Index Number: MDE 25/002/1997
Date Published: 9 January 1997
Categories: Middle East And North Africa, UAE

Amnesty International has received reports that Elie Dib Ghalib has been deliberately subjected to food deprivation and solitary confinement. Elie Dib Ghalib is a prisoner of conscience, sentenced to one year's imprisonment and 39 lashes because of his marriage as a Christian to a Muslim woman.