Lebanon approves extradition of Egyptian activist al-Qaradawi to UAE

Amnesty International warns that al-Qaradawi could beryllium astatine hazard of quality rights violations if extradited to the UAE.

Lebanon’s authorities has decided to extradite Egyptian absorption activistic Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), contempt warnings that helium could beryllium taxable to ill-treatment there.

The bureau of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced connected Tuesday that the state is acceptable to extradite the lad of the late Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi to the UAE aft the furniture voted successful favour.

The 53-year-old was arrested successful Lebanon connected December 28, soon aft returning from Syria, wherever helium had travelled aft longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was toppled by absorption fighters.

Before his arrest, the activistic recorded a video of himself astatine the Umayyad Mosque successful Damascus. In the video, helium said helium hopes the Syrian radical volition look victorious aft a tumultuous time. He besides criticised the authorities of the UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The UAE and Egypt person some filed requests for his extradition.

The Lebanese government’s determination connected Tuesday comes hours aft Amnesty International called connected authorities to urgently cull the requests for extradition to some Egypt and the UAE.

“Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi’s arbitrary detention came aft helium made comments captious of the Emirati, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian authorities and the requests for his extradition are believed to beryllium based connected the morganatic workout of his close to state of expression,” said the planetary rights organisation’s lawman manager for the Middle East and North Africa, Sara Hashash.

“Criticising the authorities is not a crime. If returned to Egypt, Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi would beryllium astatine existent hazard of enforced disappearance, torture and different ill-treatment, and unfair proceedings starring to prolonged unjust imprisonment. He would besides beryllium astatine hazard of arbitrary detention and different quality rights violations if helium is returned to the UAE.”

Hashash said that forcibly extraditing al-Qaradawi to a state wherever helium is apt to look persecution would beryllium a “flagrant breach of the rule of nonrefoulement nether planetary law” and called the lawsuit a “crucial trial of the Lebanese authorities’ committedness to the close to state of expression”.

Al-Qaradawi’s lawyer said helium would record an urgent entreaty to artifact his extradition connected Wednesday morning, the Reuters quality bureau reported.

Al-Qaradawi is also a Turkish citizen and lives with his household successful Istanbul.

The activistic was a longtime professional of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and has besides criticised existent person President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to powerfulness aft a coup successful 2013.

His sister, Ola Al-Qaradawi, has spent 4 years arbitrarily detained successful Egypt connected what Amnesty branded “bogus terrorism-related charges”.

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