ABU DHABI // A former judge convicted of running a secret organisation said to be linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has now also had his title suspended by the Federal Supreme Court.
The former judge was given a 10-year prison sentence by the State Security Court for his part in the 2013 case which saw him accused, alongside 94 other men and women, of establishing, running and managing Da’wa Al Islah.
In the Federal Supreme Court it was decided that, as a judge, he had been in breach of Article 35 of Federal Law 3 of 1983.
The article states that a judge cannot run any commercial business or business that contradicts with the independence of the justice system.
In such cases, the article states, a judge would not be able to give an unbiased ruling in any case he oversaw.
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