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– Emirati rights defender Obaid Al-Zaabi released more than three years after being found innocent (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 25, 2017

Obaid Al-Zaabi, now 60 years old, spent four years in prison since his arrest in December 2013.
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