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I'm trying to find details of where the UAE did these, do you have a link? Or it could be that you are referring to Saudi Arabia as that's the only results I get for these.
Trump acknowledged and dismissed it when the Saudi ruler visited in 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-bin-salman-visit-jamal-khashoggi?hl=en-GB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/15/saudi-forces-kill-man-who-refused-to-give-up-property-activists
Okay but the article is about UAE, or is this "Middle East" in general.
Commenter probably figures "they're all the same."
No doubt you'll tell me this is biased, but you make your own judgements.
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates?hl=en-GB
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/ex-us-soldier-earned-1-5-million-a-month-for-uae-kill-jobs-report/ar-AA204iok
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67945137?amp%3Bat_campaign=KARANGA
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates?hl=en-GB
That list doesn't include murdering and dismembering journalists or destroying homes for some mega project. Is this comment thread misinformation or just confused?
Missed a link, sorry!
I don't know how your links are related to my question. Yes UAE have done bad stuff, no one is saying otherwise, but the parent commenter said some specific things which I now believe to be in error.
EXACTLY as lazynooblet wrote, it was a Saudi incident not Dubai.
Not that I would expect better from Dubai, but you can't paint another country's action on Dubai. That simply doesn't make any sense.
The two countries are deeply economically tied, are political allies, share much of the power structure. I don't think it makes sense to separate them in this context of morality, corruption level, or personal risk.
But it was an unconscious simplification that may not apply to others judgements. Apologies for the confusing inaccuracy.
You are being downvoted for being 100% correct. 🤣 🤣 🤣
Accuracy isn't valued as much as cheering for the right team. The UAE are bad guys, so any comment disparaging them is good, and any comment "defending" them, even to ask "Wasn't that the Saudis?", is bad.
The same mentality gets you downvoted if you don't like Iran sponsoring terrorists ("The US are the real terrorists") or if you thought killing Israeli civilians at a concert was uncool ("They're occupying that land, so they deserve whatever they get").
And so you too are downvoted for writing the truth.
Of course it's not everybody, but there's a lot of it. I can't even say the example with Iranian terrorists is hyperbole, because although most would obviously not support terrorists, I have seen things quite similar to it occur here.
An example could be the case where Iran would bomb a 100% civilian data center was generally celebrated here. Not that I was one bit better, because honestly I don't think that data center has any value to the people. But in principle it remains wrong, but on the other hand USA deserves to be taught a lesson.
Clearly there's a difference between an opinion and facts. And although my opinion may not always align with higher ideals, because you may need to break some eggs to make an omelet, but our opinions should at least be based on the truth. And the truth is it was NOT UAE that tortured and killed a journalist, it was Saudi Arabia, and nobody should be downvoted for posting facts IMO.