Introduction

Danya Akad is a senior investigations editor at Middle East Eye. She writes about an Emirati businessman living in exile in Tukia who went to Jordan last month, was detained, released and then effectively disappeared. Danya: Halal Ramaeti has a really interesting story. He's a 58 year old businessman who grew up in Abu Dhabi. I understand that he was a member of Islam at some point. But in 2002, when the Emirati authorities started kind of clamping down on Islam, he said, I don't want to be part of this anymore. Then you tell us who is Islam is. It's an Islamist political party, which I believe was operating