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

Index Number: MDE 25/013/1996
Date Published: 18 November 1996
Categories: Middle East And North Africa, UAE

Elie Dib Ghalib's sentence of 39 lashes was not carried out on 16 November 1996 and he is reported to have expressed intent to convert to Islam. Amnesty International believes that the above, a 29-year-old Lebanese Christian and restaurant manager, is a prisoner of conscience imprisoned because of his marriage as a Christian to a Muslim woman.