United Arab Emirates
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- Federation with specific powers delegated to the federal government and other powers reserved for the individual emirates - monarchical federation
- CONSTITUTION
- December 2, 1971, made permanent in 1996
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on a dual system of sharia or Islamic law and civil courts
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Federal National Council (Majlis al-Ittihad al-Watani)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Union Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the Head of State
RELIGIONS
96% Muslims, 4% Christians and Hindus
From the country
- APRIL 13, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
MAN FACES DEATH OVER SEX WITH FOUR STEPDAUGHTERS
a Pakistani man faces death by stoning in the United Arab Emirates for committing adultery with four of his stepdaughters, a local newspaper reported.
- MARCH 31, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE WOMAN APPEALS AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
a woman who persuaded her lover and his two friends to kill her abusive husband has appealed the death penalty, according to court records.
- MARCH 6, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. PAKISTANI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SHARJAH
the United Arab Emirates Appeal Court upheld the death sentence against a 22 year old Pakistani man,
- FEBRUARY 15, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. IRANIAN MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SMUGGLING 282KG OF HASHISH
a 45 year old Iranian man, identified as Jamshid T., was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates by
- JANUARY 31, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
DEATH BY STONING CASE GOES TO UAE SUPREME COURT
the UAE Federal Supreme Court is looking into the case of a Pakistani man, identified as A., in his fifties, who was found guilty of having illicit affairs with his four stepdaughters and sentenced to death by stoning.
- JANUARY 1, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes under the constitution are: murder, rape...
Capital crimes under the constitution are: murder, rape...
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO MURDERED LOVER
the Criminal Appeal Court in Ras Al Khaimah, the northern most emirate of the UAE, upheld the death penalty pronounced by the emirate's Criminal Court on Mohammad Asad, a 27-year-old Pakistani illegal immigrant convicted of murdering his lover with an axe
- NOVEMBER 22, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. 'STONING' SENTENCE FOR ADULTERY COMMUTED
a woman escaped a sentence of 'death by stoning' after her sentence for adultery was commuted by an appeal court to one-year imprisonment, 40 lashes and deportation.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN TO BE EXECUTED FOR RAPE SAVED FOLLOWING PARDON
a Pakistani national identified only as M.A., whose five-year-old daughter was raped and murdered in Sharjah, Pakistan, pardoned two men accused of the crime just before they were scheduled to be executed.
- OCTOBER 30, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
a firing squad executed a man who was sentenced to death for killing a Sharjah police officer.
a firing squad executed a man who was sentenced to death for killing a Sharjah police officer.
- OCTOBER 16, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. MAN ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY, TO PAY BLOOD MONEY
it was reported that an Iraqi man who murdered a Saudi for attempting to sexually abuse his wife escaped death penalty when the father of the victim accepted diya (blood money) as per Sharia Law.
- OCTOBER 11, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. CALL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
a prominent UAE human rights activist has called for the abolition of the death penalty in the UAE, on the fourth annual World Day Against the Death Penalty.