UAE permitted Iranian agents to kidnap dissident

The UN accuses the UAE of permitting Iranian agents to kidnap exiled dissident Jamshid Sharmahd from Dubai airport. Iran has announced plans to execute him.

Human Rights Watch warns dissidents from other countries not to transit through Dubai, because the UAE might jail them or worse.

I have no reason to think I am important enough that the UAE might bother to harass me, but why take the chance? I never even consider such flight itineraries. Not all the victims listed in stay-away-countries.html for the UAE were famous.

If rejection for this reason hurts the business of Emirates airlines, that by itself is a good thing.

Countries that support human rights should reject and denounce all plans to hold important international conferences (for instance, climate conferences) in the UAE or other similar repressive countries.