U.A.E. Holds Sisters on Tweets Backing Brother, Amnesty Says
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United Arab Emirates authorities are holding three sisters for using social media to advocate on behalf of their imprisoned brother, Amnesty International said.
Asma Khalifa al-Suwaidi and her sisters, Mariam and Alyaziyah, were called to an Abu Dhabi police station for questioning on Feb. 15 after posting a Twitter message saying, “I miss my brother,” the London-based group said Friday. “Their mother received a brief phone call from someone claiming to be a State Security official the next day who said, ‘Your daughters are fine’, but provided no further information.”