Yesterday the Abu Dhabi Misdemeanor Court examined six cases that were referred to it within the group of cases submitted by the religious preacher, Wasim Yusef, while the defendants' lawyers revealed during the session, a complaint against the complainant accused of promoting programs and ideas that would incite sedition, hatred and racism, and harm peace. Social.

In detail, the attorneys present to defend the defendants accused of insulting the preacher, Wasim Yusef, agreed on the social networking site «Twitter», during their pleadings, that the complaints brought by the complainant were after the passage of the legal period of the right to litigate, which amounts to three months, and the absence of the material and moral pillars of a crime Slander and slander, and that the filing of cases came from an incompetence, as the agency granted to Wassim Youssef's lawyer does not give her the right to open communications, and they have also paid the right to the permissible criticism of the accused.

They confirmed that their clients' tweets on the social networking site «Twitter» came to respond to what Wasim Youssef said, and his skepticism about Sahih Al-Bukhari, and that their comments came within the framework of freedom of opinion, and they stemmed from their jealousy of their religion and their country in particular.

One of the lawyers, while defending one of the defendants, appealed for forgery in the tweets subject to the accusation of her client, confirming that the complainant took another tweet and added it to her client's tweet and accused him of it, and demanded that the document in question be referred to the electronic laboratory, noting that the papers are free of evidence proving that the tweets were issued from Her client's phone, in addition to the accused's denial of the charge at all stages of the lawsuit.

Meanwhile, the lawyers: Ibrahim Al-Tamimi, Rabia Abdul Rahman, Ali Al-Mansoori, Adil Al-Junaibi and Youssef Al-Ali, who were present with the defendants, argued that the lawsuit to be filed was not accepted, and the criminal intent and lack of accusation were absent, noting that some of the tweets were fragmented, with the aim of dumping their clients. In the courtyards.

They referred to the invalidity of the investigation record and the subsequent legal procedures, given the absence of unloading of electronic devices, pointing out that those responsible for the control and inspection procedures committed a group of violations, in which they violated the role that they had to play.

They asserted that the complainant was the one who provoked the community with his tweets, and they requested to address the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments, to provide its opinion on the complainant's media statements that prompted the defendants to respond to them.

For his part, the representative of the Public Prosecution refuted the defenses presented by the representatives of the defense of the accused in the pending cases, explaining that the procedures for the case, from opening a file to referring to the competent court, and the confessions included in the investigation file, came to confirm that the accused committed the crimes assigned to them.

He reviewed the evidence and the elements of the crimes committed, as well as the availability of criminal intent, adding that the defense attorneys for the defendants focused their defense on the time to summon the defendants, while the complaint was submitted during the time period specified by law.

He continued: "There are confessions of the accused, and the prosecution informed them of the tweets and installed them in the records." He stressed that the Public Prosecution office carried out its duty to investigate and research the case to the fullest extent, and that the papers and documents attached to the case convict them of what they committed.

For its part, the complainant's defense, the lawyer of Al-Menhali victim, demanded to amend the registration and description of one of the cases of insulting, slandering and threatening to prevent the publication of other tweets to a death threat, in preparation for referring the case to the criminal court, and requested a time-frame to comment on what the lawyers presented in a number of cases, confirming that the agency Its own gives it the right to appear before the prosecution in general, and it is the complainant who signs the complaints himself.

The Public Prosecution commented that the agency that the complainant attached was intact, that the complaint was filed within the legally specified period, and that its investigations were carried out on sound grounds, indicating that it had verified the agency provided by the complainant’s lawyer, and cases were filed through it.

It is noteworthy that the cases brought by Wassim Youssef witnessed in its previous sessions, 21 lawyers volunteered to defend the accused.

16 cases

The 16 cases, which were dealt with by the misdemeanor court, were divided into three judicial departments, where five cases were examined (last Tuesday) and booked for judgment on the third of next March. Six cases were examined yesterday, and five cases are scheduled to be examined the day after tomorrow.

Wasim Yusef was attacked on social media, months ago, because of his talk about "Sahih Al-Bukhari", and Yusuf said in his previous tweet on his official page on the website "Twitter" that he submitted 163 reports of accounts on "Twitter".