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Canada and the UAE announced plans to negotiate an extradition treaty and a mutual legal assistance treaty on 27 October, alongside a wider strategic partnership and trade agreement.

Over almost twenty years, we have helped almost thirty thousand victims of the UAE's draconian and chaotic system. The English Courts have refused to extradite to the Emirates based on the 'real risk of human rights abuses'. We’ve seen deaths in custody due to police brutality, rape victims jailed for “sex outside marriage”, domestic violence victims jailed for attempted suicide, frightened drone strike victims jailed for sending photos of their own apartment to loved ones.

A British woman was overcome with tears in a phone call to Radha Stirling, an Interpol and Extradition expert who founded the...