The Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation upheld an appeal ruling that sentenced a young man (Arab) to one year imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 dirhams, for insulting and threatening through a voice message, and obliging the appellant to pay the due legal fee.
The details of the case are due to the defendant's other reason through a voice message, which included words that undermine modesty, including contempt for religions, and demanded the Public Prosecution to punish the accused in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Law on combating crimes of discrimination and hatred, and articles of the federal law on combating information technology crimes, and the Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance The accused was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and fined 500,000 dirhams.
The defendant appealed the verdict, and the Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal ruled in his presence to accept the appeal in a form with the amendment of the judgment to the punishment of the appellant to imprisonment for one year and support him otherwise, and to bind him the due fee, The party of the accused's mother, a newspaper on the grounds of the appeal, and the Court of Cassation submitted a memorandum of opinion at the conclusion of the request not to accept the appeal, for submission of irrelevant.
He accused the defendant of the contested verdict to invalidate the investigation procedures, and not to investigate and investigate the location of the criminal act, and that what was issued from him was under the weight of anger, which does not exist crime, such as oath of divorce in case of anger, pointing out that the evidence is insufficient and makes doubt about The subject matter, and the doubt is explained in the interest of the accused, and that the contested verdict was sufficient in view of the mitigating reasons of the appealed judgment without examining the appellant's defenses, which makes it defective and requires a reversal and referral.
The court affirmed that the appeal was filed irrelevant, as the appeal is set to be a personal right of the person against whom the verdict was issued, and no one else can act on his behalf to initiate the appeal, unless he is a power of attorney entrusted with that right, and that the person who initiated the appeal, On behalf of the sentenced person, whether he or she was assigned by him or his last agent, to submit his agency bond and an agency bond from his sentenced client as the case may be, so that the Court of Cassation can verify the extent of the agent's prescription right to appeal, otherwise it is unacceptable A form to present without a nonsense.