many years with arbitrary arrest and detention, death threats, physical assault, government surveillance, and inhumane treatment in custody. A British businessman, Ryan Cornelius was being held arbitrarily by the authorities in the UAE since 2008. He was arrested from Dubai airport and was detained after some complicated business dealings with influential Emiratis. In 2010, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison after charges of fraud. The UAE authorities sentenced him for additional 20 years, two months before his release date in 2018. Cornelius contracted tuberculosis in detention. He was subjected to human rights abuses, including aggressive interrogations in absence of legal representative and prolonged solitary confinement. In June 2022, the UN officials shed light on the issue and called on the UAE to immediately release Cornelius. Cornelius’ family had been campaigning for his release. In September 2022, the family urged multiple foreign investors to divest their holdings in the Dubai Islamic Bank, which applied to extend Cornelius’ sentence. His wife, Heather Cornelius asked BlackRock “to divest yourself of your holdings in the DIB”. In her letter, she urged the fund manager to use its influence in DIB “to compel them to take all necessary steps to secure the release of my husband.” She wrote similar letters to lender JPMorgan, US investment manager Vanguard, British wealth manager St James’s Place and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management. The UAE authorities were keeping a woman, Amina Al Abdouli in detention since 2015, and was being held even after her sentence came to an end. In 2016, she was sentenced to 5 years in prison for charges, including “inciting hatred against the State and disturbing public order; undermining the reputation of the State institutions and publishing false information to endanger the State’s relations with its allies”. She was also faced a fine of 500,000 AED, in addition to no right of appeal. In 2021, she was sentenced for another three years for “publishing information that disturbs the public order”. During her sentence, Abdouli’s mental and physical health suffered severely. Besides, she was subjected to acts of torture, including being beaten, stripped naked, blind-folded, bound at the feet, and sleep deprived. Prisons The UAE runs secret prisons in Yemen where prisoners are forcibly disappeared and tortured. On 10 June 2020, Human Rights Watch urged UAE authorities to take care of the mental and physical health of prisoners due to the ongoing