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Human rights organisations have heavily criticized violations of human rights in Abu Dhabi. As with other parts of the UAE, foreign workers are not given proper treatment {{Citation needed|date=August 2017}} and many companies (both government and private) have yet to improve things.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/nyu-labor-rules-failed-to-protect-10000-workers-in-abu-dhabi.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=20 April 2018 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301201410/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/nyu-labor-rules-failed-to-protect-10000-workers-in-abu-dhabi.html |archivedate=1 March 2018}}</ref> In April 2009 a videotape of [[torture]] smuggled out of the UAE showed businessman [[Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan]] torturing a man and running him over repeatedly with an SUV. In addition to this, Issa was alleged to have ill-treated several other men, mostly foreign nationals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=24 September 2013 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424035532/http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099 |archivedate=24 April 2009}}</ref>

On April 22, 2020, ''[[Reuters]]'' reported that about hundreds of low-income [[migrant workers]] were seen queuing up across the road outside an Abu Dhabi hospital with the temperature outdoors exceeding 35 degrees Celsius, to get tested for [[COVID-19 pandemic|Coronavirus]]. The tests were free of charge in the entire [[United Arab Emirates]] only if the person shows symptoms, has travel history, has come in contact with a positive case. However, if not, the test costs around 370 dirham ($100). The doctors confirmed a sharp daily increase in the number of positive cases specifically in the densely populated communities that house low-income group workers.<ref>{{cite_web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-emirates-testing-idUSL5N2CA176|title=RPT-Coronavirus tests at Abu Dhabi hospital draw hundreds to queue in sun|accessdate=22 April 2020|website=Reuters}}</ref>

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