(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A.M.H.H tried to kill the victim by running him over in the emirate of Abu Dhabi with the intention of committing a terrorist act. The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal, on Wednesday, sentenced an Emirati suspect identified as A.M.H.H, 30, to life in jail after he was convicted of attempting to murder a foreigner working for a government body in the country.
A.M.H.H tried to kill the victim by running him over in the emirate of Abu Dhabi with the intention of committing a terrorist act. He was also convicted of planning to commit terrorist acts and blowing up critical places in the country.
Other charges against him involved creating social media accounts to promote the ideologies of the terror outfit Daesh, pledging allegiance of Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and had travelling to Syria to join a Daesh military training camp.
The court ordered the car the convict used in the attempted murder, all communication devices, laptops and other tools he used, to be confiscated.
'My client did not commit publishable offence'
Emirati academician N.A.Kh.B stands accused of communicating with clandestine groups affiliated to the banned Muslim brotherhood organisation. He is accused of creating accounts on Twitter and Facebook and posting photographs and articles that offend the symbols of the country and its domestic and foreign policy in a way that could hurt the ties with Egypt.
Attorney Dr Fahd Al Sabhan, defending the suspect told the court that the procedures, search and investigations ordered in the case are null and void.
"The state security prosecution is trying my client for his political opinions and thoughts, which, according to me, are moderate opinions, as they do not incite extremism nor had promoted the ideologies of any terror group," Al Sabhan said in court.
"My client is an academician and a university tutor. He is liberal and so are his thoughts, which do not correspond to those of the Muslim brotherhood. Subsequently, the charge brought by the prosecution that my client had communicated with the Muslim brotherhood and promoted the group's ideologies is null and void," the lawyer defended.
Creating accounts on social media does not meant that my client intentionally called for incitement or promoting a terror ideology. The prosecution failed to produce a tangible evidence that could prove such a crime, the lawyer added.
There is no photograph or an article that could evoke instigation or promotion of a terrorist ideology of any terror group, he noted. "The photographs and articles my client posted are just personal, which do not offend the relation between the UAE and Egypt. They do not cause troubles between the two countries," he lawyer said in court. "This means that my client did not commit any publishable terror offence," Al Sabhan stressed.
Concluding his defence, Al Sabhan told the court that Egypt did not hand out any compliant against his client. Consequently, this count must be dropped, he said.
Al Sabhan demanded that his client be cleared of all charges leveled against him.
The court reserved the case to March 29 to pronounce a verdict.
Other cases of terror
> The court condemned a 19-year-old Emirati woman suspect, M.S.Sh.A, to five years in jail after she was found guilty of pledging allegiance to Daesh on the group's official website. She was said to have created social networking accounts to raise the ideologies of the group. She tried to travel abroad to join the group and help the group with money. The court also ordered seizure of all devices the suspect used in the commissioning of the crime.
> The court sentenced an Arab national identified as M.F.Sh to six months in jail on the charge of insulting the state, offending its laws and it senior officials.
The suspect had used offensive words in public, which offended the laws of the UAE, its top officials and the security apparatus.
The court ordered the suspect to defray the entire lawsuit charges.
> Emirati G.S.S was condemned to six months imprisonment and was fined Dh3,000 after he was found guilty of possessing a firearm and bullets and bringing them into the country.
Mustafa Al Zarooni
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