Anonymous21 days ago
The United Arab Emirates has charged 21 people — including a British tourist, an Indian student, a Filipina domestic worker, and a Vietnamese sailor — with cybercrimes for filming or sharing footage of Iranian missile strikes, under a 2021 law carrying minimum two-year prison sentences and $54,000 fines. The prosecutions, revealed by advocacy group Detained in Dubai, highlight the collision between wartime information control and digital-age norms in a country ranked 164th out of 180 for press freedom, raising urgent questions about the UAE's treatment of foreign nationals during the ongoing Iran conflict.