| Reportedly, his critical conversations with his wife over the telephone were cited by the trial judgment without disclosing how the UAE authorities obtained records of the calls | Tayseer's sentence was extended six more months because he was unable to pay the fine |
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| Najjar wrote on Facebook: "Message to some journalists and writers who do not like the Gazan resistance, there is no two rights in one case, but the right one is the Gazan resistance and all else is bad — such as Israel, the UAE, [Egyptian President Abdel Fattah] el-Sisi and other regimes that are no longer ashamed of shame itself |
| Background [ ] According to , Najjar was convicted on the basis of his Facebook posts written before he moved to the UAE and criticism on phone calls with his wife | He was sentenced under Article 29 of the United Arab Emirates cyber crime law, by posting comments on the social network expressing support to armed groups in Gaza and criticising the UAE's support of Egypt's decision to destroy in the |
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| Human Rights Watch stated that Najjar's rights to due process and a fair trial were violated by the UAE authorities by not allowing him to access a lawyer including during interrogations, for more than a year |