UAE detains Khashoggi lawyer, rights group says

Photos of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest demanding the finding of his body from the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia, in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London, United Kingdom [Nevzat Yıldırım/Anadolu Agency]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has detained a US citizen and civil rights attorney who served as the lawyer for the assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a human rights group has revealed. In a statement yesterday by the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), it announced that the Virginia-based civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor was detained by Emirati authorities at Dubai airport on 14 July, while he was en route to Istanbul to attend a family wedding. The statement cited US consular officials as saying that Ghafoor was being held in a detention facility in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi, on charges related to a conviction in absentia for money laundering. The accused, however, has reportedly stated that he […] Source

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