An Emirati influencer has been fined hundreds of thousands of dirhams for defacing the UAE's national currency.
On Thursday, Abu Dhabi Court of Misdemeanours upheld a lower court’s ruling against the act and ordered the man to pay Dh300,000.
KK shared a video of himself to his one million followers on Snapchat showing how he used a one dirham coin to help burn incense. In the video, he used burning a coin would help the incense last longer.
The video has since been deleted, after it was reported to police.
“Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution had referred the defendant for trial after the spread of a video that contained acts that breach public decency, plus him appearing in one of the clips using the Emirati currency to burn incense,” a statement from the court read.
“Based on the evidence presented by public prosecution, the Abu Dhabi Court of Misdemeanours has found the defendant guilty.”
The court also ordered his social media accounts be suspended for one year.
The man was tried under Article 17 of the country's cybercrime law, which punishes anyone who produces, transmits, publishes and exploits, through an electronic site, any material that may "prejudice public morals."
After paying his fine on Wednesday, KK was released from prison, where he was held for 10 days during his trial.
Defacing currency is a crime in many countries. Burning, deforming or even writing on money is a crime in countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US.
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Gender equality in the workplace still 200 years away
It will take centuries to achieve gender parity in workplaces around the globe, according to a December report from the World Economic Forum.
The WEF study said there had been some improvements in wage equality in 2018 compared to 2017, when the global gender gap widened for the first time in a decade.
But it warned that these were offset by declining representation of women in politics, coupled with greater inequality in their access to health and education.
At current rates, the global gender gap across a range of areas will not close for another 108 years, while it is expected to take 202 years to close the workplace gap, WEF found.
The Geneva-based organisation's annual report tracked disparities between the sexes in 149 countries across four areas: education, health, economic opportunity and political empowerment.
After years of advances in education, health and political representation, women registered setbacks in all three areas this year, WEF said.
Only in the area of economic opportunity did the gender gap narrow somewhat, although there is not much to celebrate, with the global wage gap narrowing to nearly 51 per cent.
And the number of women in leadership roles has risen to 34 per cent globally, WEF said.
At the same time, the report showed there are now proportionately fewer women than men participating in the workforce, suggesting that automation is having a disproportionate impact on jobs traditionally performed by women.
And women are significantly under-represented in growing areas of employment that require science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, WEF said.
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