DUBAI // A man sentenced to five years for assaulting two police officers trying to arrest him because he was high on drugs had his sentence upheld on Tuesday.
Iranian student MD, 26, was also fined Dh20,000 and ordered to be deported at a retrial at Dubai Criminal Court, after the sentence was first issued in absentia.
A retrial is a legal right for those sentenced in absentia.
On the day of the incident, on March 15, 2011, the student ran off when approached by the officers before he set two large dogs on them by opening their cages before jumping over a wall to escape, the court was told.
When the officers, GS and AS, caught up with the Iranian, he fought them, bruising the officers and breaking AS’s toe in the process.
When backup arrived, police got the man under control and then searched his apartment.
No drugs were found but he was taken for a drugs test, which came out positive, prosecutors said.
Dubai Police’s anti-narcotics department was acting on a tip-off that MD was in possession of and consuming drugs.
Investigators tracked him down to his home in Al Qusais, where the incident unfolded.
The student was jailed for the assault and for consuming drugs.
salamir@thenational.ae
Founders: Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Turki Bin Zarah and Abdulmohsen Albabtain.
Based: Riyadh
Offices: UAE, Vietnam and Germany
Founded: September, 2020
Number of employees: 70
Sector: FinTech, online payment solutions
Funding to date: $116m in two funding rounds
Investors: Checkout.com, Impact46, Vision Ventures, Wealth Well, Seedra, Khwarizmi, Hala Ventures, Nama Ventures and family offices
Terror attacks in Paris, November 13, 2015
- At 9.16pm, three suicide attackers killed one person outside the Atade de France during a foootball match between France and Germany
- At 9.25pm, three attackers opened fire on restaurants and cafes over 20 minutes, killing 39 people
- Shortly after 9.40pm, three other attackers launched a three-hour raid on the Bataclan, in which 1,500 people had gathered to watch a rock concert. In total, 90 people were killed
- Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the terrorists, did not directly participate in the attacks, thought to be due to a technical glitch in his suicide vest
- He fled to Belgium and was involved in attacks on Brussels in March 2016. He is serving a life sentence in France
How to watch Ireland v Pakistan in UAE
When: The one-off Test starts on Friday, May 11
What time: Each day’s play is scheduled to start at 2pm UAE time.
TV: The match will be broadcast on OSN Sports Cricket HD. Subscribers to the channel can also stream the action live on OSN Play.
