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  • Updated: August 13, 2022

US Lawyer Released After UAE Money Laundering Charges

US Lawyer Released After UAE Money Laundering Charges

US citizen and civil rights lawyer Asim Ghafoor, who was convicted in the United Arab Emirates this week on money laundering charges, has been released.

Ghafoor, a prominent civil rights lawyer, was arrested while he was in transit through Dubai airport.

Ghafoor, who once represented murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was freed after paying a fine, his lawyer Faisal Gill said.

Aljazeera on Saturday reports that a court on Wednesday upheld an earlier in-absentia conviction against Ghafoor, ordering him to pay a fine of five million dirhams ($1.4 million) but overturning a three-year jail term handed down in May.

Media reports in the United States say Ghafoor has in the past come under US surveillance due to work representing Muslim Americans in civil rights cases.

Some have suggested his arrest could have been motivated by his ties to Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey in 2018, and work with rights groups critical of the UAE.

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