On 4 May last year, an Emirati woman died in Abu Dhabi’s Tawam Hospital. Her name was Alia Abdulnoor. She died chained to a bed in a windowless room with an armed guard her only companion. Her family had already been denied permission to take her home to die even though her body was riddled with cancer. What had Alia Abdulnoor done to deserve such an awful fate? She was arrested in 2015, charged and convicted of supporting terrorist organisations in Syria. According to the Geneva-based International Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ICJHR), she was detained in an unknown place for four months, subjected to torture and forced to sign a false confession which was used to convict her. … Continue reading In memory of Alia Abdulnoor