The Sharjah misdemeanor court began hearing a charge against an Iranian for other offensive language, including a threat of imprisonment and deportation from state land, after the complainant failed to repay an old debt.
Details of the incident date to September 15, when the defendant went to the work of the complainant in the third industrial zone, and asked him for a sum of money he had borrowed from him, but the complainant refused to give him the amount, insulting him in abusive terms, and threatened to imprisonment and deportation from the state in the absence of payment of the amount, The complainant was forced to turn to the police and file a complaint against him.
The court confronted the defendant with what he was accused of.
When a witness confirmed that he had heard the defendant insult the complainant, the defendant said that he spoke Farsi and that the witness spoke English and Asian, wondering how he understood his language.
In turn, the court postponed the case to 15 October next to summon the complainant, and confronted with the statements of the accused.