Sheikh Issa found not guilty

[JCMach1]

Source: The National

...Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan was acquitted today of abusing an Afghani grain merchant on grounds of diminished responsibility.

He was one of seven defendants who faced charges in a 2004 incident that took place on an Al Ain farm and was captured on video.

Five of the other six defendants were found guilty, and a security guard was also cleared.

Sheikh Issa, 40, who is a son of Sheikh Zayed, holds no official government position.

Bassam and Ghassan Nabulsi, former business partners of the Sheikh, who filmed and kept the video tape were sentenced in absentia to five years each in prison. A portion of the video was broadcast on an American television station.

Sheikh Issa was charged with rape, endangering a life and causing bodily harm...



Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100110/NATIONAL/100119987/1133

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Wow, so much for justice in the UAE. This was the sheikh caught on tape torturing the guy in the desert. The guy who took the video gets 5 years!!!

I can't say I am shocked though.

For further reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVrAaiQABjE

[Ken Burch]

1. Basically, he was found "not guilty due to aristocracy".

n/t.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Now what about Darell?

[Ian David]

3. Any relation to Rep. Darrell Issa?

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. actually Issa is a very common Arabic name which is the Arabic word for Jesus

it can be a Christian or Muslim (Shiite or Sunni) name

it can be last name like in the case of Rep. Darrel Issa or or it can be a first name as in the name mentioned above

I believe Darrel Issa is of Lebanese Christian ancestry

[Ian David]

5. Thanks! I didn't know that! n/t

[BunkerHill24]

8. Well done!

[Christa]

6. Money talks. NT.

[demoleft]

7. "The court accepted our defence...

...that the Sheikh was under the influence of drugs that left him unaware of his actions," al-Mulla said." (the lawyer)

Bassam and Ghassan Nabulsi, former business partners of Sheikh Issa, who filmed and kept the video tape, were sentenced in absentia to five years each in prison.
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Nabulsi is now suing the sheikh in federal court in Houston, Texas, where he resides, alleging he also was tortured by UAE police when he refused to turn over the tape to the sheikh following their falling out.
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Nabulsi said Sheikh Issa ordered the recording of the tape because he liked to watch the torture sessions later in his royal palace.
al jazeera, http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/01/2010110133141501815.html


some dozen ways come to my mind on how to make him forget his pastimes.