UN document: UAE keeping rights activists in jail past end of sentences

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates is arbitrarily detaining a dozen human rights activists who have already completed their prison terms, a U.N. document showed on Friday, urging the government to immediately release them and allow them to seek compensation.

The document was released three weeks after relatives of the prisoners and rights activists said that over 50 people sentenced for plotting to overthrow the UAE government were being held months and years after their jail terms had ended.