Trial of 4 young men accused of raping a woman in the desert

Yesterday, the Criminal Court in Abu Dhabi heard a case of kidnapping and raping a woman in which two Emirati and two Gulf Arabs were accused. The court heard the defense of the four defendants and confronted them with the victim’s claim during the previous sessions. The lawyer present for three of the defendants confirmed that the charge against the defendants was false and aimed at blackmail on the part of the plaintiff, demanding To release them and sponsor them out of concern for their future and the future of their families, especially since they are in different educational stages, in addition to being young. Their age and lack of experience.

The lawyer presented evidence that the victim had waived the lawsuit, which confirms – according to her plea – that the case from the beginning was an attempt at blackmail on her part, and she cited the victim’s statements in the prosecution’s investigations as evidence, as she said, “She was smoking cigarettes during the rape and did not show any resistance,” as well as Her confirmation that she “took off all of her gold jewelry and put it in her bag during the rape,” in addition to the forensic medical report confirming that there were no traces of the rape.

The lawyer asked the court not to take into account the defendants’ confessions during the investigations because they contradicted the existing evidence, and the lawyer present for the last defendant (an employee) supported all of her requests, demanding the acquittal of the defendants and their bail until the end of the case.

While the defendants said, in response to the judge’s question about their relationship with the victim, that she stopped them in front of a hotel while they were passing someone’s car and asked to take her home, but they got her out of the car near a traffic signal after they discovered that she was drunk and clearly intoxicated, without any of them trying to assault her. On her. The lawyer confirmed that the evidence of the victim’s intoxication is her assertion that the perpetrators who raped her were six people, not four, which means the accusation is widespread. She also presented a medical certificate from the Behavioral Sciences Department confirming that one of the accused suffers from psychological problems. The accused also denied stealing the victim’s gold jewelry. .

The victim had claimed during a previous session that she had been invited to a party by a mutual friend between her and the first accused, and she got to know him. After the party, he offered to drive her to her house. While the car was driving with them, she was surprised by the ringing of a phone inside the car, and she discovered the presence of another person hiding in the back seat of the car. The second defendant in the case, who took the initiative to grab her by the hair and seize her phone to prevent her from using it until they reached a desert area, and they took turns raping her until the third and fourth defendants came to participate in the attack. He raped her and seized the sums of money and gold jewelry she was in possession of.

The victim said that she did not resist for fear of being killed in the desert, especially since they were four men. She confirmed that while the car was driving with the first accused, she was subjected to an assault on her honor, but she hoped that the matter would stop at this point without it developing into a gang rape of her.

The court decided to reserve the case for ruling on the 4th session of next October.

On the other hand, the court examined several cases, including a drug abuse case in which a citizen was accused of using cannabis and tramadol. The accused denied committing the crimes charged against him, demanding that the competent authorities be obliged to provide him with the results of the analysis of the sample that was taken from him. The court decided to postpone hearing the case until the 17th session of the month. Next October.