"Dubai Criminal Court" decided to terminate the criminal case

Doctor accused of contempt of hospital on Facebook

The Dubai Criminal Court ruled that a criminal case against a female doctor, who was accused of contempt of a hospital and its director, through her personal account on Facebook, had ended, given that three months had passed since the victims became aware of the incident without reporting it on time.

According to the details of the lawsuit, the doctor was working as a general practitioner in a hospital in Dubai, and her work was terminated and the settlement and discharge were completed amicably, but she published content on her page, stating that the administrative situation had changed completely within the clinics since the joining of the new executive director, indicating that the administrative team is unprofessional. , and works according to personal grudges, and does not value employees, in addition to other accusations in a long post containing details that the hospital considered offensive to him.

The Public Prosecution directed the doctor to commit an incident that would make the two victims an object of contempt for others, using one of the information technology means, which is the “Facebook” platform.

The hospital representative stated in the police inference report and the Public Prosecution investigations that the work relationship with the doctor ended amicably, but she disdained the administration and the work team in various terms, including creating a highly toxic atmosphere, humiliating the employees, not giving them the holidays they deserve, and forcing them to work extra hours without stopping.

By asking the accused in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, she admitted what was attributed to her, indicating that she had been working for the hospital for about nine years, and her work was terminated by the new director, and the latter refused to give her her passport, or grant her her full rights, and deducted 30 thousand dirhams from her final salary. The service, as well as not providing her with the experience certificate she deserves, which caused her psychological and material problems, prompted her to write a post explaining what happened, and she repeated her confession before the court, and her legal representative submitted a request not to accept the case, to file it after the specified date, and the malicious accusation.

In the reasoning behind the ruling, the court stated that, according to Article 10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a lawsuit may not be filed in crimes of insulting persons except based on a written or verbal complaint from the victim, and the complaint is not accepted after three months from the victim’s knowledge of the crime and its perpetrator.

And she confirmed that, according to what is proven from the papers, that the plaintiffs knew that the incident was committed in October of 2020, and they submitted the communication in March 2021, that is, more than three months after the commission of the crime, and then ruled that the criminal case was not accepted, because the period of forfeiture with regard to the insult crime subject of the trial had expired. , which is the matter with which the judiciary must not accept the civil lawsuit arising from it. 

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