Dubai: An Emirati student, nicknamed Hamdan British, is seeking acquittal from charges of posing as a male prostitute and posting on the internet, indecent pictures of him wearing bikinis and cross-dressed to seduce men.
The 23-year-old student's lawyer Yasser Al Naqbi on Monday asked the Dubai Cassation Court to cancel his client's one-year imprisonment and dismiss his charges.
In July, the Dubai Appeal Court sentenced Hamadan British, identified as MN, to one year in jail.
MN pleaded not guilty and denied all charges before the Courts of Appeal and First Instance.
Not guilty
"My client was unlawfully arrested and detained. Law enforcement procedures were carried out unlawfully against MN. He pleaded not guilty and we are seeking to clear his charges of cross-dressing, posing as a male prostitute, having consensual sex and violating the Quran's sanctity and slandering Islam," argued Al Naqbi in a written defence which he handed to the Cassation Court on Monday.
The Appeals Court reduced MN's primary judgment, three years in jail, to one year.
Prosecutors, who questioned the convict, additionally charged him with posing as a woman and taking pictures of himself wearing women's lingerie and swim wear and posting photographs showing him dressed in women's outfits and wearing make-up.
