Rights group urges UK to probe UAE activist’s death near London

Prominent UAE activist Alaa al-Siddiq [Courtesy: ALQST for Human Rights]

21 Jun 2021

A US-based advocacy group, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), has called on United Kingdom authorities to investigate the circumstances of a prominent Emirati dissident’s death in a car crash near London.

Alaa al-Siddiq, 33, executive director of the UK-based ALQST, a non-profit organisation that advocates greater freedoms and human rights in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the wider Gulf region, died in an automobile collision in Oxfordshire on SaturdayRights group urges UK to probe UAE activist’s death near London