Dissidents warned over detention risk in Dubai at UN Cop28 climate summit

The emirate brands itself as a travel hub open to the world, but has seen a string of high-profile detentions of activistsRead more: Iran accused of threatening 'terrified' BBC staff in LondonJamshid Sharmahd's wife watched in fear as the pixellated dot marking his location moved away from Dubai airport and towards the border with Oman.The Iranian-German journalist and software engineer was supposed to be on a flight from Dubai to India, in late July 2020, for a business meeting, not travelling overland. His wife watched from their home in California as the dot passed a school and a hospital thousands of miles away in the Gulf state of Oman. Continue reading...