How the UAE detained a Turkish businessman in 2018 on the flimsy 'evidence' of helping Syrian refugees while he was an aid worker
Notorious for rampant human rights violations, the UAE has detained a Turkish businessman on frivolous grounds, including scrutiny over his aid work for Syrian refugees.
The Gulf country’s intelligence service members illegally detained Mehmet Ali Ozturk, and his wife Emine, in February 2018 in Dubai, where they were participating in a food fair. This is an event the couple had frequented several times in the past. While the UAE authorities released Emine Ozturk the next day, Mehmet Ali Ozturk was taken in for what would prove to be the long haul. According to media reports, he was tortured by UAE's secret service members on several occasions.
In December 2018, he was even sentenced to life in prison on the grounds of clumsy charges, this according to legal experts and Turkish officials quoted in the
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