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
- OCTOBER 30, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER STABBING NEIGHBOR 13 TIMES
An Asian man has appealed his death sentence after being accused of murdering his neighbor and trying to rape his wife, khaleejtimes reported on 25 October 2018.
- JULY 24, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: INDIAN WALKS FREE 12 YEARS AFTER GETTING DEATH SENTENCE
An Indian man, who was on death row for murdering a compatriot over bootlegging will travel back to his home country a free man, later today
- JUNE 18, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: MAN MURDERS GIRLFRIEND'S EX-LOVER OUT OF REVENGE, GETS DEATH SENTENCE
The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling by a lower court which handed down the execution sentence to a Tunisian national after he was found guilty of premeditated murder.
- APRIL 17, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR ABU DHABI CHILD KILLER
The Abu Dhabi Court has upheld the death sentence of the killer of 11-year-old boy, Azan.
- MARCH 26, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: MAID SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING INFANT
The Sharjah Criminal Court ruled, in the presence of ‘blood relatives,’ to execute the Asian maid who was convicted of premeditatedly killing Salama Salem Al Mazmi, a 9 month-old infant.
- MARCH 6, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: MAN WHO KILLED LOVER'S HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH BY DUBAI COURT
A man who killed his lover’s husband was sentenced to death in the UAE after being convicted of premeditated murder.
- JANUARY 1, 2018United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is rarely applied in the UAE...
The death penalty is rarely applied in the UAE...
- NOVEMBER 28, 2017United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: CHILD KILLER GETS DEATH SENTENCE
The Abu Dhabi court has ordered death penalty for the killer of 11-year-old boy, Azan, bringing justice to the family. The court of First Instance handed the execution order to the 33-year-old Pakistan man.
- NOVEMBER 23, 2017Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
ANTI-TERROR STATES ADD 2 ENTITIES, 11 INDIVIDUALS TO TERRORIST BLACKLIST
The Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ); Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, added two entities and 11 individuals to its blacklist.
- NOVEMBER 23, 2017United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE EXECUTES JORDANIAN WHO RAPED, KILLED 8-YEAR-OLD COMPATRIOT BOY
November 23, 2017: UAE authorities executed Nidal Eisa Abdullah, the convict who raped and killed eight-year-old boy Obaida in May 2016, local media reported.
- NOVEMBER 5, 2017United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
A Gulf national has been given death penalty on charges of beating his 25-year-old Arab wife to death.
- OCTOBER 24, 2017United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF FIVE IN MURDER CASE
A Sharjah (UAE) court has commuted the death sentence of five Indians, including four Punjabis, to three-year imprisonment in a murder case.