The US Department of State annual report on human rights in the world has criticized the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other countries.
The report spoke of allegations indicating that UAE government officials tortured prisoners while in detention.
Experts and former detainees were quoted as accusing the UAE authorities of beating prisoners and threatening them with death and rape.
The US State Department report stated that human rights defender Ahmed Mansour claims that he is being held in solitary confinement in Al-Sadr prison in Abu Dhabi without beds or water, while the UAE authorities continue to arrest Khalifa Al-Rabiah and Ahmed Al-Mulla after the end of their prison term.
The report added that the UAE denies that any forces supporting it in Yemen have committed any violations.
On human rights in Saudi Arabia, the report said that the Saudi government has not punished in the cases of several officials accused of human rights violations.
He stated that human rights violations in the Kingdom include several practices, including enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention.
The report said that a Saudi court had executed five officials in the assassination case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and acquitted three others.
He stressed that the position of the US State Department on this crime has not changed, and that Saudi Arabia lacks transparency in this regard.
The report added that the air strikes carried out by the Saudi-Emirati coalition in Yemen lead to civilian casualties, and that Riyadh has not yet tried any of the accused referred to in the report of the joint team to assess incidents in Yemen.