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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the regional leader in advocating censorship of the Web through the use of Proxy Filtering System. The filtering software aimed to block a wide range of online publications considered pornographic, violent, critical of the Government or the ruling families or supportive of certain Israeli positions or as content deemed “disturbing or harmful”. Censorship is often seen as a human rights violation, especially when it is combined with a repressive, governing regime.

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004), served as president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 1971 until his death in Nov. 2, 2004.  Born around 1918, he was the youngest of the four sons of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan,  a member of the Bani Yas tribe, who ruled Abu Dhabi from 1922 to 1926.
Abu Dhabi  Emirate is primarily a vast desert area (It occupies 67,340 square kilometers or 86.7% of the total area of the UAE) with about two dozen islands in the coastal waters, including the island where the city of Abu Dhabi (Previously called Milh or Salt) is located.
The Emirate was poor and undeveloped and its economy was based primarily on fishing and pearl diving along the coast and on date plantations and camel herding in scattered oases inland with part of the population being nomadic.
In 1939, Sheikh Shakhbut, the then ruler of Abu Dhabi, granted the first of several oil concessions on his territory. When oil was discovered in Abu Dhabi in 1958, economic matters began to improve. The first commercial field entered production in 1962. And Abu Dhabi [...]

During the centuries of Greek and Roman domination, the gulf region was of limited interest to the major powers, but the area’s importance as a strategic and trading center rose with the emergence of Islam in the seventh century A.D.
The caliphate’s military strength was concentrated at Hormuz (The Strait of Hormuz). Strategically sited at the mouth of the gulf, its authority extended over ports and islands of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
The strategic importance of Hormuz, however, did not survive the appearance of Western powers, initially the Portuguese who came to the gulf in the late fifteenth century after Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the route to India via the Cape of Good Hope. The Ottomans and the Iranians also tried to dominate the gulf but faced opposition from local tribes in Bahrain and Muscat, reluctant to cede authority over their territories, which by then were the most important areas on the coast.
Increasing British involvement in India beginning in the late eighteenth century quickened British interest in the gulf region as a means of protecting the sea routes to India. Before British intervention, [...]

Drug traffickers, terrorist groups, and organized crime groups have established their criminal and money-laundering networks in the UAE and conduct major financial transactions. The UAE is also a major center for underground banking hawala networks and drug trafficking tied to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Human rights are given prime importance in our socio-political life. It would be proud privilege and primary duty of the Governments, press and responsible persons to come to the rescue of innocent citizens against a mighty state repressing every human rights and depriving the victim of his/her very sustenance