The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal began hearing the case of a young man accused of kissing the hand of a girl inside a building elevator, sensing her body, asking her to have a sexual relationship with him, threatening her in the event of refusing to tell her father about her relationship with a person, in addition to sending pictures and pornographic films to her phone via WhatsApp. The court postponed the case to the third of next November.
The Public Prosecutor assigned the defendant to threaten the victim and commit abusive things to honor and consider that he threatened to inform her father of her relationship with one of the men, and asked her to abstain from doing so to establish a sinful relationship with him by using the means of "social networking programs", and the charges included the accused, the victim In a public place, he grabbed her hand and kissed her, stored for the purpose of showing others pornographic material and sent it to the victim through WhatsApp, in addition to the charge of taking pictures of the victim and keep and use in threat.
The court of first instance had sentenced the defendant to five years' imprisonment and ordered his removal from the state, confiscation of the seized telephone, erasure and execution of data and information, and obliged him to draw the criminal case.
Attorney Hadiya Hammad, in a memorandum defending the defendant, made a mistake in the application of the law and corruption in reasoning and inadequate in causation, pointing out that the arrest of the accused is flawed due to lack of permission from the prosecution, and there was no evidence from which the court derives its belief in the conviction of the accused. Any invalid action shall result in the invalidity of all procedures based on it.
Hammad pointed to the contradiction of the victim and her father. The defendant said in a statement that the defendant, after refusing to hug him, asked her to shake hands with him and grabbed her hand and began to accept her, pointing out that she shook hands with him outside the elevator in the eleventh floor corridor, and pushed that the case papers are void of evidence of committing the crime. Electronic laboratory to a The identity of the sender of the pornographic films to the victim has not been determined, nor has the pornography the victim sent to the accused been previously sent from the accused.
She pointed out that the incident, as stated in the victim's statements in the investigation, that the defendant sent her pornographic film through the social networking program WhatsApp, and then after a period of demanding to re-send the video to him, and the accused and her father reported the incident five weeks after the incident.
Attorney Hadiya Hammad asked the court to accept the appeal in a form. In this regard, the appealed judgment was annulled and the defendant was acquitted of the charges against him.