And about Singapore:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/massive-leap-backwards-singapore-resumes-executions-2014-07-18

The liberal and progressive Muviment…

““Beneath the façade of glitz and glamour, a far more sinister side to the UAE has emerged showing the UAE as a deeply repressive state where activists critical of the government can be tossed in jail merely for posting a tweet,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

Those targeted include lawyers, university professors, students and civil society activists, some of whom are linked to the Reform and Social Guidance Association (al-Islah), a peaceful grassroots organization that the government claims has links to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The clampdown has also targeted their family members.

The report, published ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi this weekend, exposes the huge gulf between the public image the UAE tries to project of a dynamic, modern and burgeoning economic power, home to luxury hotels, skyscrapers and designer shopping malls; and the darker reality of activists routinely persecuted and subjected to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment.”

Amnesty International

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/business/business_news/40059/muscat_well_turn_malta_into_the_next_singapore_or_dubai

Dubai is one of the emirates of the UAE.

Amnesty International:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/uae-ruthless-crackdown-dissent-exposes-ugly-reality-beneath-fa-ade-glitz-and-glamour-2014-11-18