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    Emirati gets death sentence for joining Syria militants

    A court in Abu Dhabi on Sunday sentenced to death an Emirati convicted in absentia of having joined both the Islamic State group (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, a newspaper reported.

    The Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates also found Khalfan Sultan al-Suwaidi guilty of recruiting fighters for ISIS and the Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, Gulf News reported on its website.

    Suwaidi, whose current whereabouts remain unknown, would be granted a retrial if he appears in court, based on UAE law, according to the daily.

    The top court in the UAE also sentenced two other Emiratis, Fares Abdulaziz and Mohammed Awad, to seven years in prison each after convicting them of having joined "terror groups in Syria".

    A third defendant was handed a three-year prison sentence after being convicted on similar charges, the daily said.

    In July, the UAE executed an Emirati woman for the militant-inspired murder of an American school teacher in a toilet of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall in late 2014.

    Also on Sunday, the Abu Dhabi court jailed a Palestinian for three years for "insulting UAE leaders and promoting the terrorist ideology" of ISIS, Gulf News said.

    The court will meanwhile announce its verdict in the trial of 41 people allegedly seeking to overthrow the government to set up an ISIS-style caliphate in the Gulf state on March 6, the daily added.

    The UAE is part of the US-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against ISIS in Syria since September.

    It stepped up security measures since the wave of Arab Spring protests that swept the region in 2011.

    Authorities have enacted tougher anti-terror legislation, including harsher jail terms and even introducing the death penalty for crimes linked to religious hatred and extremist groups.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCont...yria-mili.aspx
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    Court Sentences 4 Emiratis To Death For Joining ISIS

    SYRIA: A top court in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday sentenced four Emiratis to death after convicting them of joining the ISIS in Syria, local media reported.

    The four, who were tried in absentia, are part of a group of 11 defendants accused of "joining the terrorist ISIS in an Arab country", the official WAM news agency said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

    Local newspapers said that the group had travelled to Syria.

    They were also charged with "promoting" ISIS online, helping to finance the group and insulting UAE leaders, WAM said.

    Three other Emiratis, a Bahraini, a Mauritanian and a Syrian were handed jail sentences of between three and 10 years, the local Gulf News daily reported. Another Emirati was acquitted.

    Abu Dhabi's Federal Supreme Court does not allow international media access to such trials.

    The UAE is a member of the US-led coalition that has been bombing ISIS jihadists in Iraq and Syria since September 2014.

    UAE authorities have enacted tougher anti-terror legislation, including harsher jail terms and even introducing the death penalty for crimes linked to religious hatred and extremist groups.

    In July, the UAE executed an Emirati woman for the jihadist-inspired 2014 murder of an American school teacher in an Abu Dhabi shopping mall.

    Her husband is accused of seeking to carry out attacks on targets including Abu Dhabi's Formula 1 circuit and has reportedly claimed to be the local leader of ISIS. He is currently on trial.

    In another case, the same court jailed three Arabs for 10 years each after convicting them of ties to the Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen, WAM said on Sunday.

    It acquitted three others for lack of evidence against them, it added.

    The UAE is also playing a key role in a Saudi-led coalition that has been battling the Huthis and their allies in Yemen since March last year.

    http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/court...g-isis-1277377

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    Obaida killer to be executed, Dubai’s highest court rules

    DUBAI - The man who kidnapped, raped and killed Obaida Al Aqrabawi, 8, is to be executed after he lost his final appeal at Dubai’s highest court on Monday.

    Dubai’s Cassation Court overruled the appeal lodged by Jordanian Nidal Ali, 49, and upheld the death sentence against him.

    "We can’t believe it is over," said Obaida’s mother, Zaineb Sharif. "Yesterday I was telling my mother that, inshallah, tomorrow we will hear that he will be executed.

    "We can’t thank enough all the people who stood by us and supported us during this ordeal."

    Obaida was kidnapped on May 20 while playing outside his father’s garage in Sharjah’s industrial area. His body was found two days later on Academic City Road in Al Warqa.

    Ali was sentenced to death by Dubai Criminal Court on August 15 last year, a verdict that was upheld on January 22 by Dubai Court of Appeal.

    Now that the verdict has again been upheld at the Cassation Court, the case will be referred to the President, Sheikh Khalifa, or Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, to approve the execution and set a date.

    Obaida’s family were waiting at their Sharjah home when the verdict came through.

    "Since early morning we were waiting to hear and the family has not slept in anticipation," said Ibrahim Al Aqrabawi, his father. "Now that justice has been served, we will try to move on with our lives."

    After hearing the news Mr Al Aqrabawi, from Jordan, went up to his flat to tell his wife and Obaida’s grandmother.

    Obaida’s 70-year-old grandmother, Adla Othman, was in tears when she heard the news.

    "I was flown in 10 days ago from Jordan to stand by my daughter and our family. I am relieved now that the killer will be executed for what he did to my grandson," she said.

    "He was an angel, a nice kid, well behaved. And he was brutally murdered, may he rest in peace."

    Mr Al Aqrabawi said that during the trial several people had asked him to drop the charges.

    "Relatives have been trying to call me, text me to pardon him. I had to block them on WhatsApp. I wanted nothing but justice for my son and our family and now it has been served," he said.

    During the trial, Ali admitted to drinking excessive amounts of alcohol on the day he strangled Obaida but he denied sexual assault and kidnapping, saying the boy went willingly into his car.

    During the appeals case, Ali’s defence lawyer requested a psychological evaluation for his client, which was later presented to the court.

    The report found that he suffered from antisocial personality disorder and alcohol dependency "but it does not affect his perception nor does it hinder his ability to distinguish right from wrong. He is fully aware and responsible for his action".

    "The killer was admitted to Rashid Hospital’s psychiatric section, where he was examined by a medical committee for a week," the report said. "He also underwent a personality test by psychiatrists and their clinical diagnosis was consistent with the committee’s findings."

    http://www.thenational.ae/uae/obaida...st-court-rules
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    Death penalty sought as UK journalist denies murdering his wife in Dubai

    Prosecutors in Dubai are seeking the death penalty for a British journalist accused of murdering his wife.

    Francis Matthew, t he editor-at-large of a prominent English-language newspaper, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a premeditated murder charge.

    Police allege Matthew, who worked for Gulf News, beat his 62-year-old wife Jane to death with a hammer, leaving her body in a pool of blood in their bed before telling detectives that robbers killed her.

    The killing has shocked the United Arab Emirates' large British expatriate population.

    The 61-year-old Matthew wore white prison-style clothes to a brief hearing in a Dubai courtroom on Wednesday.

    He looked thin and sombre while entering his plea, saying: "Not guilty."

    After the hearing, Matthew's lawyer Ali al-Shamsi said they are looking to get a minimum sentence for his client.

    "There is a mistake in the autopsy report," Mr al-Shamsi said, without elaborating.

    On July 4, Dubai police said they were called to Matthew's three-bedroom villa in Dubai's Jumeirah neighborhood.

    There, they say they found his wife of over 30 years dead and the editor told them robbers broke into the home and killed her.

    During a later interrogation, however, police say Matthew told them his wife had grown angry with him because they were in debt and needed to move.

    Matthew said he got angry when his wife called him "a loser" and told him "you should provide financially", according to police.

    Matthew told police his wife pushed him during the argument.

    He then got a hammer, followed her into the bedroom and struck her twice in the head, killing her, according to a police report.

    The next morning, Matthew tried to make it look like the house had been robbed and later went to work like nothing had happened, throwing the hammer in a nearby tip, police said.

    Gulf News previously has said Matthew served as its editor from 1995-2005 and then became an editor-at-large at the newspaper.

    He was still with the newspaper at the time of the killing, though a Gulf News article on the court appearance on Wednesday referred to him as a former employee.

    http://www.independent.ie/world-news...-36173190.html
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    Man who sexually assaulted, killed 8-year-old Obaida executed

    By Marie Nammour
    The Khaleej Times

    A 49-year-old man convicted of killing and sexually assaulting an 8-year-old child was executed on Thursday morning after the death sentence had been approved by the Dubai Ruler.

    The trial of the Jordanian man, Nidal Eissa Abdullah, came to an end in February after the Dubai high court upheld the capital punishment that was given by the two lower courts. He was found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting Obaida, also from Jordan.

    Defense lawyer Ali Musabeh, confirmed the execution on his Twitter page. "Today morning Dubai police executed the death sentence issued by Dubai courts, after it had been approved by Dubai Ruler, on the defendant Nidal Eissa, killer of Obaida, in Al Ruwayya area in Dubai," Musabeh said in a tweet.

    The boy went missing on May 20, 2016, and his body was found two days later on the side of a road in Al Warqa.

    The convict Nidal Eissa Abdullah was found guilty of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing the Jordanian child under the influence of alcohol.

    The Dubai public prosecution has been pushing all along for the court to inflict the death penalty against the accused.

    Musabeh pleaded earlier for the court to exert leniency towards his client on the grounds that he was showing regret over what he did. He said his client was under the influence of alcohol and could not recall what happened that night. He also cited his client's claims of being rejected by his own family which contributed to his alcohol abuse, as the accused claimed.

    A psychiatric report concluded Abdullah was mentally stable and sane and thus could be held responsible for his actions and behavior.

    The court ruling states that the convict's body be repatriated to his home country after the execution.

    A death penalty ruling that comes out of the Dubai Court of Cassation, has to be approved by the Dubai Ruler before it can be executed, as per article 67 of the UAE Federal Penal Code.

    Convicts sentenced to death are executed in Dubai by a firing squad.

    https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/cr...baida-executed

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    Jordanian father rejects blood money for murdered son Obaida

    By Malik Al Ash-Shaykh
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    According to UAE-based The National, the father of eight-year-old Obaida Al Aqrabawi, who was raped and murdered by a Jordanian man in May last year, has refused to accept a 600,000 dirhams ($163,360.88) settlement, known as 'blood money'.

    The newspaper reports that Ibrahim Al Aqrabawi, the father of the victim, said that some people thought he was waiting for the 'right' price in compensation for his son’s murder by Nedal Issa Abdullah.

    However, he continued by stating that "not for all the money in the world would I sell my son’s blood, that's why I refused a JOD120,000 cheque (600,000 dirhams) ($163,360.88) offered by the killer’s family and tore it up into pieces".

    The killers family had approached Obaida's father a few months ago and offered the money as a settlement but he refused without hesitation

    It has also been reported that another meeting was held in the city of Al Zarqa in Jordan whereby a delegation from the killer’s family, reputable elders, and high profile personalities including Fatah Central Committee member, Abbas Zaki, gathered to strike an agreement to prevent retaliatory attacks.

    At the time, Mr. Zaki spoke on behalf of Abdullah's tribe and condemned the shocking crime and representatives of both families signed an agreement that would ensure that no revenge killings would occur.

    In Jordan, settlement meetings related to murders are known as 'Atwah'. In such cases, an offer of money in compensation for a grievance is made by the family of the offender in order to prevent retaliation.

    In May 2016, Abdullah was found guilty of sexually assaulting and raping Obaida Al Aqrabawi, an 8-year-old Jordanian boy who was kidnapped by while playing outside his father’s garage in Sharjah’s industrial area.

    A Dubai Municipality worker discovered his body in the Al Warqa area in Dubai two days after he went missing. Abdullah was arrested, tried, and convicted of raping and murdering Obaida.

    In February, Dubai's Cassation Court rejected an appeal presented by the convict, upholding the capital punishment ruling given by the two lower courts.

    As per Article 67 of the UAE Federal Penal Code, a death penalty ruling must be approved by the emirate's ruler and the president of the country before it can be carried out. The official method of execution is firing squad.

    Ibrahim Al Aqrabawi was present at the execution, alongside two of Obaida's uncles. At the time of the execution, Aqrabawi told The National that Abdullah asked for forgiveness moments before his death, something he refused to give him.

    "The fire inside our chests is now cooler. We were comforted by many high ranking officials who confirmed to us that justice would be served and today it most certainly was," the father said.

    Aqrabawi added that three bullets were shot into Abdullah's chest but failed to kill him. This was followed by another shot to the head before the doctor declared him dead.

    https://stepfeed.com/jordanian-fathe...on-obaida-7919

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    Killer who raped and buried victim in desert given death sentence

    Man died of suffocation after his mouth was stuffed with sand

    UAE - The National

    An on-the-run killer who raped and murdered a man before burying his body in the Dubai desert was given the death penalty.

    The 31-year-old, from Pakistan, orchestrated the murder plot with a 21-year-old accomplice, who was jailed for 10 years for his part in the crime.

    The 30-year-old victim, also from Pakistan, died from suffocation after he was tied up, sexually assaulted and had his mouth stuffed with sand.

    His body was found by labourers from Jebel Ali on March 16, two weeks after his disappearance. It had been partially covered by rocks, Dubai Criminal Court was told.

    Police were alerted and a team of investigators and forensic experts were sent to the scene.

    An investigation revealed the victim was captured on CCTV footage at a petrol station with two men shortly before his death.

    Police identified the two men and were able to track down the 21-year-old. The second man left the UAE a day after he was seen with the victim and is yet to be traced.

    During police questioning, the 21-year-old said his co-defendant plotted the murder.

    He told prosecutors that the accused at large had raped the victim before both of them tied him up.

    “The other suspect filled the victim's mouth with sand,” the 21-year-old said in court records.

    He told police that his partner in crime had asked him to arrange a meeting with the man.

    “He told us that the other defendant provided him with the victim’s mobile number and asked him to call the man and arrange for a meeting,” a police officer said.

    The two met the victim near his residence in Jebel Ali then took him in a car belonging to their company to a remote area.

    “He (the co-accused) was angry and screaming at the man accusing him of defaming him,” said the 21-year-old defendant.

    “Then he told me to rape the victim but I refused. So he raped him then asked me to hand him a rope from the car,” the defendant told the court.

    He told police his co-accused took the victim's mobile phone and wallet before they dug a hole, stuffed his mouth with sand and buried him.

    The 21-year-old defendant denied a charge of premeditated murder, admitting he was present but saying he did not take part in the killing.

    He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder, with an additional one year in jail for theft.

    He is to be deported after serving his jail term.

    His co-defendant was sentenced to death in his absence after being convicted of premeditated murder, rape and theft.

    https://www.thenational.ae/uae/kille...tence-1.785976

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    Pakistani man handed death penalty for killing ‘sexually abusive’ Emirati boss

    A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced a Pakistani man to death after he confessed to killing his Emirati boss who withheld his salary “in exchange for sex”.

    The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance handed the sentence to the man after he was found guilty of premeditated murder and theft, the Khaleej Times reported.

    The worker and his employer are thought to have got into a dispute over wages and a delay in the payment of bonuses.

    The Pakistan man, who has not been named yet, was said to have been earning roughly $272 despite being promised a monthly salary of $408.

    After working for many months, the employer informed the defendant that his monthly salary had been increased by $136, bringing it in line with the amount that was initially promised.

    After the employer refused to pay the additional amount, the man went to a shop with his friend and bought a meat cleaver, according to the Khaleej Times. He then called his boss for a meeting and told him that he wanted to go to a remote area in the city outskirts to pick something from a friend but needed his help because he didn’t have transport.

    The Emirati boss drove him in his car. And while on the way in a quiet area, the worker pulled out the meat cleaver and hit him with it on the head and neck.

    Prosecutors charged the man with premeditated murder and theft.

    Throughout the trial, the Pakistani man maintained he had attacked his employer in self-defence.

    https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/paki...-emirati-boss/
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    UAE: Child killer will face death penalty, Abu Dhabi court rules

    Man who raped and murdered his sister’s step son awaits execution

    The National: International

    A man who raped and strangled an 11-year-old boy on the roof of an apartment building in Abu Dhabi will be sentenced to death, the Court of Cassation has ruled.

    Athan Janjua was returning from a mosque across the street from his home when he was brutally attacked by Mohsen Bilal in May, 2017.

    Bilal, who disguised himself as a woman by wearing an abaya, lured the boy to the rooftop of the apartment block, where the victim lived with his family.

    The Pakistani defendant tried to rape Athan, who was his sister’s step son, but the boy resisted and begged his attacker to respect the copy of the Quran lying next to him, prosecutors said based on the defendant’s confessions.

    When Athan continued to resist, his attacker strangled him with a laundry rope.

    Both the criminal court and appeals court sentenced the Pakistani man to death and - with the court of cassation upholding the sentence - the verdict is now final.

    During the court case, prosecutors produced CCTV footage that showed the defendant walking into the building wearing women’s clothes.

    They said he tricked the boy into following him to the roof before he sexually assaulted him.

    The boy’s body was discovered the next day by maintenance workers.

    Both public prosecution and the boy’s Russian mother and Pakistani father insisted on the death sentence against Athan’s killer.

    https://www.thenational.ae/uae/court...rules-1.812693

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    Death penalty sought for man who killed 5 in UAE massage parlour

    The Khaleej Times

    Public prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for a worker, who is accused of stabbing five people to death at a massage parlour in Abu Dhabi. The judge at the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance, however, said that a verdict will be pronounced only after the victims' families inform the court if they are willing to pardon the defendant in exchange for blood money.

    The Bangladeshi man is on trial for murdering a man for having paid sex with his Indonesian girlfriend and four others who worked with her at the massage parlour in the Musaffah industrial area last year.

    Eight other Bangladeshi men, who knew about the murder but wanted to cover up for their friend, were also charged in the case.

    Court documents stated that the Bangladeshi entered the massage parlour and found the Asian victim seated there. As his girlfriend entered another room with the four other women, the man asked the victim whether he was having paid sex with his lover. When he said yes, the defendant stabbed him with a knife several times until he died.

    After that, the defendant went on to attack the four other women as they had let his girlfriend have sex with other men in his absence.

    The case came to light after a worker reported to the police about a foul smell from a room in his neighborhood. When the police went to the parlour, they found the five bodies.

    During the course of the investigation, the police arrested the defendant, his girlfriend and the eight Bangladeshis.

    The defendant had admitted to the murder during his interrogation, but denied the charges in court.

    https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/cr...-death-penalty

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