The writer was
a General contractor / Businessman in Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
When a court favorably proceeded in his
civil suit of a building contract, a local
who was the opposite, in collusion with
police-officials trespassed into his office
premises and threatened him to withdraw the
civil suit. The writer refused to yield such
a demand. Consequently, his entire office
was ransacked and valuables looted.
Thereafter, the writer and his brother were
framed under false criminal charges and
taken to the central prison. He and his
establishments suffered huge losses for not
allowing him to have meetings with any
person or communicate with the outside
world. His case was taken up in trial only
after five months.
The Court listened to the evidences of
eye-witnesses saying as to a policeman was
holding an iron bar of one meter length in
his hand, threatening anyone who came near
the office premises of the accused and was
shouting :
"Indian, Pakistani and Bengalis all are
thieves and procurers! "
The judges were much moved by the massive
evidences before them which established
beyond doubt the orchestration of the police
and the dishonest deals of the local man.
The Court acquitted the writer and his
brother and ordered an investigation into
the crime committed by the local man and the
police.
To avoid embarrassment the prosecution filed
an appeal, and on the same day the writer
and his brother were granted bail. However,
despite the acquittal and the bail they were
not released from prison. Later, a full
bench appellate court affirmed the decision
of the trial court. It further reiterated
the condemnation of the prosecutor. An
excerpt from the appellate judgment as
follows :-
" Verily the Islamic law and the entire
positive laws have honoured man and
protected his freedom, his honour, his
property and his soul. Hence, if man was
killed while protecting these, he is
considered to be a martyr. And limitation of
his freedom without any right is an
unforgiving crime and the same is mentioned
in the provisions of articles 2 and 3 of the
penal procedure code. And it is proved in
this case that the policemen along-with the
local went to arrest the accused, without
any right and curtailed his freedom".
{The appellate standard for overturning an
acquittal is reportedly "without the
slightest doubt of guilt." More: The
UAE Judiciary }.
The good number of witnesses from different nationalities who did not care the threat of local police and public prosecution dared to explain the facts, were unusual
occurrences in their country and this indeed helped the court. But since the opportunity to protest is not permitted in their judicial system, all these efforts remained in vain. This writer and his brother continued languishing in jail and after a period of one year they were deported back to India.
There is no room for doubt that, this was a blatant violation of Human Rights. It is a country where its own judicial pronouncement is treated as worthless sand.
( The following concerns were owned and
managed by Mr.Jabir in the UAE.)
M/S. Premier General Contracting Est.
M/S. RAMLA Electro-Mechanical Est.
M/S. Summer-Pool Building Material Trading Est.
All the above said sponsored by:
Mr. Eassa Ahmed Jaaffar;
Contacts Nos. at:
Mobile: 50-4441122 / 7918888
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Email:
mail@uaeprison.com
"Can you imagine doing business in a society where your staff are at risk of being arrested, detained or exiled for no apparent reason? It is not rare, there have been numerous examples of late of business people being detained. Will expatriate staff be willing to stay? Can you afford to lose the investment in recruiting, training and developing individual local staff?".... Mary Robinson.
'Possibly it is
time to have a serious thought about certain countries having
economic or material leverage, but totally flouting some of
the basic rights'.
Ex-inmates of
the Al Wathba Central prison have some startling stories to
relate. They say that the Jail in Abu-Dhabi has 10 clandestine
blocks where nearly 2,000 people from the Third World
countries are being held like medieval slaves, mostly for
crimes they had never committed....
The
UNDP (United Nations Development Program) document
The UAE was one of the 19 countries in the world that the United States blacklisted
for human trafficking. Boys from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka have been trafficked to the United Arab Emirates to work as camel jockeys. Children as young as four have been trafficked and used as camel jockeys.
