Rafik Beekun
Islam is strictly against torture. Here is what a Royal Family member, Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed, did to an Afghan man because he suspected him of having overcharged him in a grain deal for about $5,000.
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3–if you understand arabic
For more information, please go to this site: http://www.uaetorture.com
UAE Sheikh Acquitted of Torture
Al Jazeera, January 10, 2010
Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the brother of UAE president and Abu Dhabi emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, has been acquitted of charges of torture, his lawyer has said.
An Emirati court on Sunday acquitted Shiekh Issa despite a video tape of the 2004 incident showing him torturing an Afghan man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.
“The court acquitted Sheikh Issa after establishing he was not responsible,” for the torture, lawyer Habib al-Mulla said on Sunday.
“The court accepted our defence that the Sheikh was under the influence of drugs [medicine] that left him unaware of his actions,” al-Mulla said.
Bassam and Ghassan Nabulsi, former business partners of Sheikh Issa, who filmed and kept the video tape, were sentenced in absentia to five years each in prison.
The video tape was handed to the ABC News channel last April.
Sheikh Issa was charged with rape, endangering a life and causing bodily harm, the Gulf National newspaper reported.
The torture victim was identified by Nabulsi as an Afghan grain dealer, Mohammed Shah Poor, who the sheikh accused of short changing him on a grain delivery to his royal ranch on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi.
Al-Mulla said that Sheikh Issa, who has been in detention for the past seven months, would be released following the acquittal. [more]
Eggplant Post
January 11, 2010
Afghan Torture Victim Convicted of Repeatedly Running into Sheikh Issa’s Fist
http://wp.me/pIP1s-2c
lezaeiou
January 13, 2010
Seriously I would have been surprised if the verdict was that he is guilty. This is the typical Arabic way of life.