{"id":152,"date":"2018-12-27T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T09:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avtuae.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T09:54:36","slug":"uae-accused-of-torture-and-running-secret-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"UAE accused of torture and running secret prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-wPC55AxGJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace talks aimed at ending almost four years of civil war in Yemen have started in Sweden \u2013 and hailed by the UN\u2019s envoy as an important milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a war which has triggered humanitarian disaster on a massive scale, with Saudi Arabia\u2019s airstrikes and blockade widely scrutinised and condemned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the role played by their key ally, the United Arab Emirates, has gone largely unnoticed. Yet the UAE stands accused of conducting a dirty war on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman has been speaking to to a high profile former prisoner who accuses the UAE of running secret prisons and subjecting hundreds of people to torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/uae-accused-of-torture-and-running-secret-prisons\">https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/uae-accused-of-torture-and-running-secret-prisons<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace talks aimed at ending almost four years of civil war in Yemen have started in Sweden \u2013 and hailed by the UN\u2019s envoy as an important milestone. It\u2019s a war which has triggered humanitarian disaster on a massive scale, with Saudi Arabia\u2019s airstrikes and blockade widely scrutinised and condemned. But the role played by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}