Dubai Criminal Court orders the imprisonment of the owner of the "fabricated" shooting video

The Dubai Criminal Court has ruled that an (Asian) waiter has been imprisoned for six months and fined 5,000 dirhams after he was found guilty of publishing a fabricated video on the TikTok application that would compromise public order. Are panicked.

The report of the Electronic Evidence Department of the General Department of Criminal Evidence in Dubai Police confirmed that the video was posted on the personal account of the accused in the application, and that the voices incorporated in the video clip have no relation to the location but deliberately tampered with them, which is considered a violation of public order.

By asking the accused about the police inference report and the investigations of the Public Prosecution, he admitted that he had photographed the clip himself in a car park in the Emirate of Dubai, then added to it the sounds of gunfire and screaming.

The accused deliberately filmed the video in a way that gives the impression that the incident is real, as he was shaking the camera as if he was fleeing gunfire, while the sounds that he combined were recorded and were often cut from a movie, or an incident that occurred outside the country.

It is clear from the content of the accused’s account on the “Tik Tok” application that he fabricated the video with the aim of increasing the number of his viewers and followers on the application, as it appears active on this application, and the number of his followers exceeds 11,400 people.

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