Ahmed Mansoor

Ahmed Mansoor Al Shehhi (Arabic: أحمد منصور) is an Emirati blogger, human rights and reform activist arrested in 2011 for defamation and insults to the heads of state and tried in the UAE Five trial.

[4] This occurred under Project Raven, a clandestine surveillance and hacking operation targeting other governments, militants, and human rights activists critical of the UAE monarchy, which came to light in January 2019.

[9] In April 2019, the Human Rights Watch raised concerns over Mansoor’s deteriorating health due to his hunger strike, which he started a month back to protest against his unjust imprisonment.

[10] In June 2021, The Gulf Center for Human Rights accuses, through a complaint made in France's courts, Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi of being responsible of Mansoor's torture.

In a strongly-worded resolution, the EU stated that the Emirati authorities “violated Ahmed Mansoor’s rights for more than 10 years with arbitrary arrest and detention, death threats, physical assault, government surveillance and inhumane treatment in custody”.