The UAE, Amnesty International, And A Question of Treason

I am not a fan of Amnesty International or other so called defenders of human rights because they have a tendency to call wolf whether there is actually a wolf there or not. That kind of false accusations gives birth to many human right abuses. Below I have several quotes from one of their reports on the United Arab Emirates.

Death penalty and cruel judicial punishments

In March a Yemeni national was reportedly executed in Dubai after he was found guilty of killing four of his relatives. In April an appeal court in Dubai upheld the death sentences of Andre Seefred, a Ukrainian national aged 28, and Sergei Doboni, a Russian national aged 24, who had been convicted in February of murdering an Indian national in July 2001. At least 20 individuals were sentenced to be flogged.

Here is some statistics on the United Arab Emirates.

“UAE is already:
* The world’s third richest, with per capita income of $16,471
* The fourth largest oil producer at 2.5 million barrels per day
* One of the world’s lowest crime rates – 19 per thousand
* One of the best student – teacher ratios – 12 to 1
* A doctor per 311 people and a hospital bed per 853
* An automobile for every six people and a phone for every three. “

So the UAE is strict on crime and the crime rate is low. That makes me think that Amnesty International views the rights of the criminal as more important than the rights of the victim.

Ill-treatment in prison

Disturbances in Dubai’s male prison in February reportedly resulted in injuries to several people. The authorities denied reports that prisoners had died.
On 30 July, following a dispute mainly between prisoners, the authorities reportedly ill-treated prisoners to restore order. An Iranian prisoner reportedly died as a result.

I do not know why amnesty international seem so concerned about the rights of criminals. I guess they feel that prisoners have the right to do violence but that guards do not. That is a strange double standard to say the least.

Child labour

In July, in a move to enforce a 1993 law banning the use of boys as camel jockeys, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs reportedly announced that children under the age of 15 would be banned from camel racing. Boys as young as four have reportedly been used as jockeys and some have been seriously injured or killed during races.

It sounds like the government is attempting to stop human right abuses which is what they are supposed to do. Of course the government does not have the right to discipline the human right abusers as that would violate the abusers human rights.

Intergovernmental organizations

In March the UAE submitted a report to the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee detailing measures intended to combat “terrorism”. These mainly related to financial controls and increased cooperation with international policing bodies, but also referred to the UAE’s accession in 1999 to the Arab Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism. AI believes that provisions of the Arab Convention violate international human rights standards.

In May the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examined the UAE’s initial report in respect of its obligations as a state party to the UN Children’s Convention. In June, in its Concluding Observations, the Committee welcomed various measures undertaken by the UAE to promote children’s rights, but recommended that the government withdraw its reservation to Article 14 of the Convention, under which state parties are to respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. The Committee also called on the government to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in accordance with the principles and provisions of the Convention; abolish the imposition of flogging and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment on people who have committed crimes when they were under 18, and ensure that the system of juvenile justice includes juvenile courts and fully integrates the provisions of the Convention. The Committee also expressed serious concern at “the hazardous situation of children involved in camel racing

This brings to mind the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Roper v. Simmons when 5 of our high Justices chose to violate the U.S. Constitution in order to comply with United Nations rules. That is an act of perjury which comes mighty close to treason if it is not treason. The American Bar Association which most if not all justices are a member of is an NGO of the United Nations. The ACLU and the NAACP both NGO’s of the United Nations in conjunction with other so called civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief in the case. The Open Society Institute is known to have made grants to both The ACLU and the ABA. George Soros is a nationalized citizen and the money man behind The Open Society Institute in known to fund and has been accused of purchasing the Democratic Party.

You can find out what groups are NGO's of the United Nations at the website of the United Nations Department of Information. Grantmaker will tell you what organizations the Open Society Institute makes loans to. A search for George Soros will find his relationship to the Democratic party.