Family appeals for clemency over unending Dubai jail term

IHR-Advisors in The Times on 31 July 2023

The case of Ryan Cornelius is featured in The Times following a personal plea to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum by Ryan’s family:

The family have won the support of a campaign group of British peers and MPs. The United Nations working group on arbitrary detention has ruled the two men’s trial “unfair” and their imprisonment “arbitrary”.

Cornelius tried to appeal against the second sentence but was not allowed on a bus from prison to the court. The appeal was dismissed because he was absent.

Cornelius’s family blame Mohammed al-Shaibani for the men’s continuing imprisonment. He had taken over as chairman of DIB and is also director of the ruler’s court, in effect the second most powerful man in the emirate.

IHR-Advisors has represented Ryan before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

You can read the article published by The Times in full behind a paywall, here.