" Najjar was questioned about expressing his support for armed groups | 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 |
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Tayseer's sentence was extended six more months because he was unable to pay the fine |
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.
1Reportedly, 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 | Death [ ] He died on 19 February 2021 in , due to a pre-existing heart condition |
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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 |
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