Yesterday, the Abu Dhabi Misdemeanor Court resumed hearing 16 cases of insult and defamation through social media, held by religious preacher Wassim Youssef, against citizens and residents. The court decided to postpone five cases until February 18, six cases for the February 20 session, and five cases to February 23 session.
Yesterday’s session witnessed the division of cases into three judicial departments, where the cases were postponed from the previous session to consider the defendants ’defense requests, while the lawyer, Ibrahim Al-Tamimi, the Commissioner to speak on behalf of the Defendants’s Defense Authority, held the same requests yesterday, while stressing the need to attend The complainant to discuss it in the videos that were attached to the case files in the previous session, which explain that it is the main reason for the defendants' response to the complainant within the framework of freedom of opinion.
While the lawyer, Rabiaa Abdel-Rahman, contested the forgery in the conviction document submitted by the complainant, through which one of the accused was accused of insulting him in a tweet via "Twitter", indicating 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 that the document be referred to the Public Prosecution and appeal against forgery.
It is worth noting that the preacher Waseem Yusef was attacked on social media sites for months, because of his talk about "Sahih Al-Bukhari", and Youssef 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 he worked to collect tweets that were issued from these accounts.
He continued, saying: "I endured a lot, but they continued unfortunately, and 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 between us." While the previous sessions of the case witnessed 21 lawyers volunteering to defend the accused.