As a result of the international outcry following the video shown on ABC News on April 22, 2009 of  Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan torturing an Afghan grain dealer, UAE officials have announced that the sheik has been put under “house arrest” and prevented from leaving the country while the Ministry of Justice conducts a criminal investigation.

“The videotape of this episode shocked the world,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The report of the arrest was reassuring, but now the government needs to make the details public. Secretive prosecutions will not deter further abuses and torture.”

Link to HRW