Rafidi
Legendary Member
Lebanese are all over the world as we know, as ordinary people migrating for a better livelihood and to even settle down and establish businesses and institutions and even intermarrying and assimilating into other cultures and nationalities. We are more in number outside of our country than inside of it.
A country where our compatriots have faced indiscriminate arrests and persecution, and their fundamental human rights abused without recourse to law, while that country continues to present itself as a moderate Arab nation on the path of progress and modernization is the United Arab Emirates. The UAE treats Lebanese nationals with a malicious tribal mentality and attitude.
Our compatriots like in many other countries they are found, choose the UAE to work and live in and to make their livelihood and get their daily bread. Their presence and struggle for a livelihood have been politicized by the UAE authorities, mostly on political and sectarian grounds. Ordinary people have been reduced to scapegoats.
Recently, days ago, 14 Lebanese were arbitrarily arrested, or rather kidnapped or at best have been victimized. And according to Lebanon's ambassador to the UAE, UAE authorities have given no explanation for the arbitrary arrests. Assuming we treat the nationals of the UAE and any other fellow Arab country in this manner or we as a people and country target the nationals of the UAE or another Arab country, what would have been the reaction of people, both within and outside Lebanon to such abuse of the rights of humans who are legal travellers? People are not supposed to be randomly arrested or targeted without a warrant for committing a crime. People are not supposed to be arrested and kept without bail or and should be charged for a crime. There should be convincing legal explanations if the nationals of a country are to be deported. These 14 men are not slaves who were captured and thrown into a prison cell. This abuse by the UAE has to stop. And this is not the first time they threaten to expel or arrest randomly Lebanese nationals (without anyone batting and eyelid, and) who work there and sweating for their livelihood while serving the economy and people of the UAE and making positive and constructive contributions to their host country and its it's people.
If the UAE has political bitterness towards any political organisation in Lebanon, their bitterness and anger should not be channelled in an abusive, random, unjustified and wicked way on ordinary people seeking a better life by doing legitimate work. Such insanity and inhumanity are not justified and cannot be representative of a modern and progressive society. This exposes the UAE authorities are still using a malicious tribal mentality and approach from the stone age to treat strangers and the nationals of another country (fellow Arabs) in their land. This is disgusting and goes against all Arab norms and human rights laws. Rights groups around the world need to raise the alarm because it is a very bad and dangerous precedence for humanity as a whole that the UAE is setting for others to follow by randomly and justifiably targeting the nationals of another country in such manner, without charges and without bail and with any arrest warrants.
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December 7, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Lebanon's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fouad Dandan, said he does not have information on the reasons why Emirati authorities arrested 14 Lebanese citizens last month as they played football.
Lebanese LBCI TV channel reported Dandan as saying that the investigations are still secret, noting that the Lebanese community is the second largest Arab community in the UAE, and has the lowest number of arrests.
Remarking on the UAE's decision to suspend visa applications for Lebanese citizens, Dandan said he has not been officially informed of the decision, adding that he had contacted Emirati authorities who confirmed no such decision has been made.
"Some Lebanese managed to obtain visas while others were unable to do so. There are conditions for obtaining visas, and in Lebanon there is a state of panic so people who submitted more than one visa application in one day have caused the 'system' to refuse their application. The only Emirate that has lifted the ban on visitors' visa is Dubai in light of the measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus," he added.
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A country where our compatriots have faced indiscriminate arrests and persecution, and their fundamental human rights abused without recourse to law, while that country continues to present itself as a moderate Arab nation on the path of progress and modernization is the United Arab Emirates. The UAE treats Lebanese nationals with a malicious tribal mentality and attitude.
Our compatriots like in many other countries they are found, choose the UAE to work and live in and to make their livelihood and get their daily bread. Their presence and struggle for a livelihood have been politicized by the UAE authorities, mostly on political and sectarian grounds. Ordinary people have been reduced to scapegoats.
Recently, days ago, 14 Lebanese were arbitrarily arrested, or rather kidnapped or at best have been victimized. And according to Lebanon's ambassador to the UAE, UAE authorities have given no explanation for the arbitrary arrests. Assuming we treat the nationals of the UAE and any other fellow Arab country in this manner or we as a people and country target the nationals of the UAE or another Arab country, what would have been the reaction of people, both within and outside Lebanon to such abuse of the rights of humans who are legal travellers? People are not supposed to be randomly arrested or targeted without a warrant for committing a crime. People are not supposed to be arrested and kept without bail or and should be charged for a crime. There should be convincing legal explanations if the nationals of a country are to be deported. These 14 men are not slaves who were captured and thrown into a prison cell. This abuse by the UAE has to stop. And this is not the first time they threaten to expel or arrest randomly Lebanese nationals (without anyone batting and eyelid, and) who work there and sweating for their livelihood while serving the economy and people of the UAE and making positive and constructive contributions to their host country and its it's people.
If the UAE has political bitterness towards any political organisation in Lebanon, their bitterness and anger should not be channelled in an abusive, random, unjustified and wicked way on ordinary people seeking a better life by doing legitimate work. Such insanity and inhumanity are not justified and cannot be representative of a modern and progressive society. This exposes the UAE authorities are still using a malicious tribal mentality and approach from the stone age to treat strangers and the nationals of another country (fellow Arabs) in their land. This is disgusting and goes against all Arab norms and human rights laws. Rights groups around the world need to raise the alarm because it is a very bad and dangerous precedence for humanity as a whole that the UAE is setting for others to follow by randomly and justifiably targeting the nationals of another country in such manner, without charges and without bail and with any arrest warrants.
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Envoy: No reasons given for UAE's arrest of 14 Lebanon citizens
December 7, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Lebanon's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fouad Dandan, said he does not have information on the reasons why Emirati authorities arrested 14 Lebanese citizens last month as they played football.
Lebanese LBCI TV channel reported Dandan as saying that the investigations are still secret, noting that the Lebanese community is the second largest Arab community in the UAE, and has the lowest number of arrests.
Remarking on the UAE's decision to suspend visa applications for Lebanese citizens, Dandan said he has not been officially informed of the decision, adding that he had contacted Emirati authorities who confirmed no such decision has been made.
"Some Lebanese managed to obtain visas while others were unable to do so. There are conditions for obtaining visas, and in Lebanon there is a state of panic so people who submitted more than one visa application in one day have caused the 'system' to refuse their application. The only Emirate that has lifted the ban on visitors' visa is Dubai in light of the measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus," he added.

Envoy: No reasons given for UAE's arrest of 14 Lebanon citizens
Lebanon's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fouad Dandan, said he does not have information on the reasons why Emirati authorities arrested 14 Lebanese citizens last month as they played...
