The UAE officially admitted receiving Khalaf Abd Al Rahman Humaid Al Rumaithi from the Jordanian authorities. 

The UAE state-run news agency WAM claimed that “the procedures for handing over the terrorist were carried out in accordance with the arrest warrant issued against him and the agreements concluded on legal and judicial cooperation of the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council tasked with the prosecution of criminals fleeing criminal justice in Arab countries.”

Al-Romaithi, was detained at Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport. He was released on bail later that day but detained again a day later at a coffee shop by security men in civilian clothes. The security forces claimed that he was arrested on suspicion of trying to flee the kingdom after he changed his residence and phone number.

In July 2013, the UAE’s Federal Supreme Court sentenced al-Romaithi in absentia to 15 years in prison following the grossly unfair and infamous “UAE94” mass trial

His lawyer, Assem Al-Omari, stated that the Jordanian authorities had not officially informed him of al-Romaithi’s extradition to Abu Dhabi.

Sources familiar with the matter affirmed that the UAE government has continued to pursue al-Romaithi over the past ten years, freezing his money and preventing him from meeting with his children, who are subjected to a travel ban.