Ahmed Mansoor

أحمد منصور

Activist In opposition Independent Inactive Verified

Emirati blogger and rights activist; sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018 for online speech criticizing the Emirati government. Repeated targeting by Pegasus spyware before his arrest was a central case in the global debate over commercial spyware.

Country: United Arab Emirates
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist
Status: Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Ahmed Mansoor (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Article English 2021-01-27

Ahmed Mansoor (Emirati human-rights defender; Martin Ennals laureate) — per Human Rights Watch / GCHR (27 Jan 2021): the UAE jailed its most prominent rights activist for 10 years for peaceful advocacy — his tweets about injustices, online human-rights conferences and contacts with HRW/GCHR were used as criminal evidence; UAE laws "criminalize the peaceful criticism of senior officials... and... imprison anyone who argues for political reform."

Mansoor’s tweets about injustices, participation in international human rights conferences online, and his email exchanges and WhatsApp conversations with international human rights organizations, including Human Rights…

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How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Ahmed Mansoor [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ahmed-mansoor

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ahmed Mansoor." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ahmed-mansoor.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-ahmed-mansoor,
  title     = {{Ahmed Mansoor}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ahmed-mansoor},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.