FACILITY NAMES
Alternative Names: Al Warsan Immigration Centre, Dubai Immigration Detention Centre
Location
Country: United Arab Emirates
City & Region: Dubai, Middle East
Latitude, Longitude: 25.154167922772665, 55.51226179298962
Contact Information
DETAINEES
Categories of detainees
Undocumented migrants (administrative)
SIZE & POPULATION
LENGTH OF DETENTION
OUTCOMES
CONDITIONS
CARCERAL INDICATORS
STAFF
SEGREGATION
CELLS
COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES
HEALTH
MONITORING & ACCESS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NEWS & TESTIMONY
2026
From MRRORS (16 May 2026): "At Al Warsan Immigration Centre, Ali said he was stripped naked in front of other detainees and forced to perform sit-stand punishments around twenty times.
For Abbas, the treatment was even more brutal. As soon as he arrived at the Al Warsan facility, the police registered his name and took him inside. He was immediately forced to perform sit-stand punishments and to walk on his knees across a ladder. Later, officers removed all his clothes in front of eight other detainees and recorded a video of him. Abbas said security personnel hurled extremely abusive language towards him involving his mother, and he was electrocuted with a stun gun when he retaliated.
During his three days inside the Al Warsan facility, Abbas said he was given foul-smelling khubus bread to eat and salty sea water to drink. “It was very bad, you cannot eat and drink that,” he said. Detainees, he said, were crowded into small rooms, and forced to sleep on double-decker beds without pillows."
2026
"Pakistan has been trying to help end the war in Iran, but that effort is now creating problems with one of its longtime partners, the United Arab Emirates. The rich Persian Gulf country has started a large-scale expulsion of Pakistani workers, threatening to cut off a vital source of jobs for Pakistan. ...
"The Pakistani foreign ministry has denied that Pakistani citizens have been deported en masse and did not respond to questions about whether Shiites were singled out. The ministry’s spokesman, Tahir Andrabi, said the expulsions were of Pakistanis who had committed crimes in the Emirates. ...
"On April 13, Ali Hamza, 25, a security administrator for a major Emirati logistics company, said he was picked up at his office by a plainclothes officer and taken to the Al Awir detention center. He said he was deported to Pakistan on April 21. A dozen Pakistanis interviewed by the Times described similar experiences and requested anonymity because they hoped to recover money and assets left behind in the Emirates, or hoped to return."
