{"id":557,"date":"2021-06-22T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/?p=557"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:50:54","slug":"emirati-human-rights-activist-alaa-al-siddiq-dies-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Emirati human rights activist Alaa Al-Siddiq dies in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Emirati human rights activist has been identified as the victim of a fatal road crash.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaa Al-Siddiq, 33, from London, died in a collision between a BMW and a Land Rover at the junction of the A361 and the B4437 near Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, at about 20:20 BST on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights group ALQST said it mourned its executive director’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thames Valley Police said no arrests had been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Al-Siddiq had been travelling in the back seat of the BMW and died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, ALQST, which works to defend human rights in Saudi Arabia, described Ms Al-Siddiq as an “icon of the Emirati human rights movement”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The London-based group said: “Many people will remember her tireless devotion to her work; her passion for helping others and standing up for them; her powerful defence of human rights; and her efforts in support of worthy causes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added Ms Al-Siddiq left the UAE to fight for human rights after her father was “arbitrarily imprisoned”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She worked as a volunteer at ALQST before going on to to becoming its executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paying tribute, Amnesty International said her death was a “huge loss to the human rights community”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another human rights group, Dawn, said: “Al-Siddiq was inspired, not defeated, by the injustice experienced by her father, Muhammed al-Siddiq, to seek justice for all of the people of the Gulf region deprived of basic human rights.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALQST said it had investigated the crash and found “no suggestion of foul play”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police said one of the BMW passengers, who suffered non-life threatening fractures, remained in hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another passenger in the car, who suffered minor injuries, had been discharged from hospital along with a four-year-old child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Emirati human rights activist has been identified as the victim of a fatal road crash. Alaa Al-Siddiq, 33, from London, died in a collision between a BMW and a Land Rover at the junction of the A361 and the B4437 near Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, at about 20:20 BST on Sunday. Human rights group ALQST said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}