Acknowledgements This report has been written by Jo Bezzano with assistance from Judith Carter. They are both inhouse solicitors and lecturers at the Liverpool Law Clinic. We are grateful to the Strategic Legal Fund which funded the early part of the work described here; a trust fund that supported our work for two years and prefers to remain anonymous, and to the University of Liverpool School and Law and Social Justice for their support for the Law Clinic and this project. We have also worked closely with Cynthia Orchard of Asylum Aid. We also acknowledge the ongoing support of our Law Clinic colleagues, Elaine Brand, Jared Ficklin, Dominque Mansley and Dr Sarah Woodhouse. We thank University of Liverpool Law students Anmar Alghadhanfari and Mansour Elkehya for many hours of excellent Arabic interpreting and for help with editing this report. Throughout the project Mike Wakefield and his colleagues at DLA Piper Middle East LLP contributed advice notes on relevant legal provisions in Gulf states. These have been very useful and we are grateful to DLA Piper for their specialist assistance. Any remaining errors are the authors’ own. Cover artwork ©Alix Chauvet. 1