The Federal Court docket of Attraction in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday convicted 53 defendants of leaders and members of the “Muslim Brotherhood” and 6 firms in a case often known as the “Justice and Dignity Case.”
Based on the judgment of the Nationwide Safety Court docket, the case numbered Nationwide Safety Penalty No. 87 of 2023, which was known as the “Justice and Dignity Group Case” by the media, noting that the sentences imposed on the defendants ranged from life imprisonment to life imprisonment. million UAE dirhams.
The courtroom said in an announcement that it sentenced 43 folks to life imprisonment for committing “terrorist” acts within the UAE and sentenced 5 defendants to fifteen years in jail for the aim of “establishing, creating and administering the Justice and Dignity Committee” for knowingly committing anti-national acts. The opposite 5 defendants had been sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined $10 every for “establishing, founding and financing Cash laundering crimes dedicated by terrorist organizations are topic to a high-quality of 1 million dirhams.
The courtroom additionally fined six firms and their officers with a high-quality of Dh20 million every, disbanded and closed the headquarters of those firms, confiscated their property, materials and ethical rights, cash, actual property and the facade they owned, and confiscated Supplies, instruments and all seized property obtained and used within the fee of crimes involving cash laundering dedicated by organized legal teams and utilizing the proceeds to finance terrorist organizations.
The courtroom additionally dominated to reject the legal case in opposition to 24 defendants for cooperating and offering funds to the “Calling for Reform” group, and acquitted one of many defendants.
Notably, this ruling could be appealed to the Federal Supreme Court docket.
Within the causes for its resolution submitted at present, the Court docket confirmed that the crime for which it punished the defendants for the creation, institution and administration of the group “Committee for Justice and Dignity” was a definite crime and totally different from the crime for which it was directed. Tried below “Nationwide Safety Punishment”.
She added that the proof offered within the case, together with confessions and confessions of a few of the accused, witness statements and technical studies submitted therein, had been enough to show the legal conduct of the accused.
After greater than ten hearings and the beginning of the trial course of, the courtroom assured all of the rights and protections loved by the defendants in accordance with the regulation, permitting the defendants to decide on their very own attorneys, appointing a lawyer to defend defendants who do not need a lawyer, and listening to their protection and attorneys’ submissions and overview the written protection memorandums they submitted.
