Rights groups say UAE releases 3 after denouncing Islamists

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Human rights groups say the United Arab Emirates has released three people with alleged ties to a local Islamist group after denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Osama al-Najjar, Badr al-Bahri and Othman al-Shehhi were released after appearing in a nearly two-minute video shared on social media sites by the state-aligned UAE Forsan in which they denounced the Brotherhood and its ideas.
The Gulf Center for Human Rights and the Int