Dozens of Shias deported from UAE

Dozens of Shias deported from UAE
20 January, 2013 – by shiapost

At least 30 Shia Muslims have been deported from United Arab Emirates and forced to leave everything behind, The Shia Post reported.

The Shia immigrants were told to leave the UAE as soon as possible within 24 hours, even some of them were living since 20 years.

On of the Pakistani immigrant was given 12 hours to evacuate all his business and residential property from Dubai.

The deported imigrants are including Pakistain, Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese Shia Muslims.

The United Arab Emirates has expelled long-term Lebanese Shiite residents from the country over their presumed affiliation with Hezbollah.

On security grounds all these were force to evacuate their property within hours, one of the immigrant informed the Shia Post.

The residence permits were also cancelled for no apparent reason.

Last year Khoja Shia madrassa closed down, Shia mosque activities restricted, World Federation meeting on 19th May 2012 shifted to Dar al Salam after government refusal to host it in Dubai.

Since 2009 hundreds of Shia have been deported from UAE, while in April 2012 in a wave of deportations of Lebanese nationals 9 immigrants were deported and banned to enter in UAE.

“I lost my huge amount of my property, above all education of my children has been disturbed”, an immigrant to the Shia Post.

The current deportation of Shia Muslims this year have also made them banned to enter in UAE due to security concerns.

They have not committed any crime and they were not in the habit of discussing politics, but they were practical Shias. …more