Abu Dhabi Misdemeanor Court continued its hearing today (Wednesday), 16 cases of insult and defamation through social media, filed by the religious preacher, Wasim Yusuf, against citizens and residents, and the court decided to postpone five of them until February 18, and 6 other cases For the February 20 session, and five issues for the February 23 session.
The session witnessed, the cases are divided into three judicial departments, where the cases were postponed from the previous session to consider the defendants ’defense requests, while attorney Ibrahim Al-Tamimi,“ Delegated to speak on behalf of the Defense of the Defendants ”, held during the session the same requests, while stressing the need for the complainant to come to discuss it In the videos that were attached to the case files in the previous session, which explains that they are the main reason for the defendants' response to the complainant within the framework of freedom of opinion.
Lawyer Rabia Abd al-Rahman appealed for forgery in the conviction document submitted by the complainant, through which one of the accused is accused of insulting him by tweeting on the social networking site Twitter, noting that the complainant had broken the text, and the editor was written by another account on Twitter and was attributed to the accused, and demanded Referral of the document to the Public Prosecution and appeal against forgery.
It is worth noting that religious preacher Waseem Yusef has been attacked on social media for months because of his talk about "Sahih Al-Bukhari", and Yusuf said in a tweet last June through his official page on "Twitter", that 163 accounts on "Twitter" will be referred To the Public Prosecution, indicating that it worked to collect tweets that were issued from these accounts.
He continued, saying: "I have endured a lot, but unfortunately they have gone on. They practiced the most severe bullying, bad manners and insults. That is why I swear to God, I will not give up my right ... and the judiciary is among us."