The commutation of an accused for assaulting the artist "Zeina" in Dubai

The Dubai Court of Appeal has commuted a fine against a US-Arab lawyer accused of a mutual assault with Egyptian actress Wissam Reda Ismail, known as "Zeina", for only AED5,000 instead of AED10,000. The artist.

The Misdemeanor Court had closed the curtain after several sessions and convicted the two parties of the attack, the artist and her sister and an American family of Egyptian origin, after being involved in a mutual assault in a popular hotel restaurant in Dubai, and fined 10,000 dirhams against all parties, and referred the civil laws attached to the competent civil court However, the lawyer appealed against the ruling and the Court of Appeal reduced the fine.

In the last hearing before the verdict, the Misdemeanor Court heard testimonies of a witness who happened to be in the restaurant when the incident occurred. The witness said that he heard the third defendant in the case "Zeina" screaming and insulting a little girl, beating her on her hand, and in reaction to what happened Zina's sister rushed to the mother and pushed her and then bitten her.The father tried to save her, but the actress beat him on his hand, pointing out that the father and mother "the first and second accused" did nothing, and that he received a share of the attack When he tried to break the fight.

The head of the Dubai Misdemeanor Court asked the two attorneys to defend both sides of the case if there was any intention or attempts to reconcile between the parties, but replied in the negative, stressing the continuation of the litigation process.

The incident took place on June 29 when the Egyptian actress was sitting with her sister and my first child and her friend in a restaurant in a popular hotel in Dubai, and the atmosphere suddenly tense when she thought - according to the words - that the daughter of the other defendants is a 12-year-old girl photographed, and attacked the girl and her Sabbath In Arabic, she said, "Hey animal," but the girl who was filming her brother did not respond because she did not speak Arabic - her father said.