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Insult to Islam accused's lawyer refers to dictionary in trial
The lawyer of an engineer jailed for insulting Islam by referring to "damn" mosques asked the Appeals Court today to look up the word in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The case of JM, a Briton who was working for Abu Dhabi Municipality, is being heard by the Appeals Court for a second time after the Cassation Court ruled its first trial was invalid as there was no translator present.
The engineer, who was in charge of a municipality project to build gardens around mosques, was reported to police by a colleague who claimed he asked: "When will we finish with the damn mosques?"... http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/insult-to-islam-accuseds-lawyer-refers-to-dictionary-in-trial
The case of JM, a Briton who was working for Abu Dhabi Municipality, is being heard by the Appeals Court for a second time after the Cassation Court ruled its first trial was invalid as there was no translator present.
The engineer, who was in charge of a municipality project to build gardens around mosques, was reported to police by a colleague who claimed he asked: "When will we finish with the damn mosques?"... http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/insult-to-islam-accuseds-lawyer-refers-to-dictionary-in-trial
OF course, didn't the reporter who wrote the piece just do the same thing?