Emirates Centre for Human Rights

The Emirates Centre for Human Rights (ECHR) is a British-based non-governmental organisation that promotes the defence of human rights in the United Arab Emirates.[1] The ECHR also engages in advocacy to “build strong relationships with media, parliaments and other relevant organisations outside the UAE” and has organised three meetings in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in July 2012, March and July 2013.[1]

The ECHR's website was originally registered to Malath Skahir, a former director of the Cordoba Foundation and the wife of Anas Altikriti, the current Cordoba Foundation chief executive and the key political lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain.[2] Former ECHR Director Rori Donaghy says that Altikriti helped to set up the ECHR but now has nothing to do with it.[2] As of 2015, Anas Mekdad is the director.[3]

Current ECHR Director Anas Mekdad has made comments in favor of suicide bombings and is an outspoken supporter of Hamas. According to The Telegraph, "He is the founder of AlMakeen Network, a UK-based website which also publishes articles praising the Brotherhood, Hamas and suicide bombings."[4]

The organisation has been quoted in the BBC,[5] Huffington Post,[6] and Wall Street Journal.[7]


References
  1. "About Emirates Centre for Human Rights". Emirates Centre for Human Rights. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  2. "Terror-link group met in parliament". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  3. Gilligan, Andrew. "How the Muslim Brotherhood fits into a network of extremism". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  4. Gilligan, Andrew (8 February 2015). "How the Muslim Brotherhood fits into a network of extremism". The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  5. "BBC News — UAE activist Waleed al-Shehhi 'jailed for trial tweets'". BBC News.
  6. "Indian Man Facing Death Penalty in the UAE Says He Was Tortured Into Confessing". The Huffington Post UK.
  7. Rory Jones. "U.A.E. Attempts to Censor News Website in the U.S." WSJ.
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