The Court of Misdemeanors in Ras al-Khaimah considered the case of a young man accused of terrorizing a child (the son of his sister) with an electric shock and publishing the video on social networking sites. He said he was just joking with him.
The indictment indicated that the accused had offered the victim a cruel act whose effects would not go with the passage of time. The first instance court had fined the accused 5,000 dirhams for the charges against him.
The defendant denied the charges against him and stated that he was joking with his nephew and there was no intention of endangering his life, pointing out that he had used his mobile phone and not a thief.
He explained that members of the family were present at the moment of the incident, and that one of them filmed the video, and published it on a private family through Watts Ab, while another person published it.
The child's father told the court that he had given up the case because he knew that his wife's brother could not intimidate his son or endanger his body. He asked the court to acquit the accused of the charges.