On Monday 4 June, the chair of the European Parliament's sub-committee on human rights Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D, Italy) called for the release of Emirati human rights campaigner Ahmed Mansoor. On 28 May, Mansoor was sentenced to ten years in prisons for "using social media sites (...) to publish false information, rumours and lies on the United Arab Emirates, and encouraging sectarian sentiment and hate which damage the country's social harmony and unity".
"This conviction, based...