One of Dubai’s highest profile prisoners, US citizen Zack Shahin, has gone on hunger strike to protest a lack of due process after spending more than four years in jail without a conviction.
His protest marks a broadening of a three-week hunger strike by other foreigners imprisoned in Dubai on financial charges, shedding an uncomfortable light on the emirate’s judicial system as its economy starts to recover after the financial crisis.
More than a dozen other inmates in Dubai’s Al-Awir jail have over the past month launched hunger strikes to protest their incarceration for bouncing cheques, a criminal offence in the United Arab Emirates.
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