UAE | Crime
Lawyer accuses drugs team of breaching rights
A lawyer has criticised the anti-narcotics police for breaching the rights of his client who was forced to urinate on the floor of a room where he was locked for 48 hours.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:21 March 18, 2009
Dubai: A lawyer has criticised the anti-narcotics police for breaching the rights of his client who was forced to urinate on the floor of a room where he was locked for 48 hours.
"The anti-narcotics police locked up my Emirati client [being prosecuted for consuming drugs] in a cold, stinking and unhygienic room for two consecutive days&he was forced to urinate on the wall so the law enforcement officers could take his urine sample and test it for drugs. This is an act of disparagement and breach of A.A.'s rights. He was placed under emotional and psychological pressure before the urine sample was taken for examination," lawyer Yousuf Al Hammad argued when he defended his client before the Dubai Court of First Instance this week.
When he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance, the defendant pleaded not guilty and dismissed what he described as groundless accusation of consuming morphine, codeine, tetra hydro canapenol, venoparpetal, oxazepam, temazepam and nordazepam, as charged by the Public Prosecution.
"The anti-narcotics police took my client's urine sample in an unlawful way and it was taken against his will&the sample was taken in a way which clearly violates article 2 of the Criminal Procedures Law," Al Hammad said as he presented his verbal argumentation before Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad.
The lawyer pressed that his client was innocent and that it would have been impossible for him to have consumed seven kinds of drugs in succession. "The suspect was in police detention, so how could he have consumed seven drugs in a detention which is monitored around the clock," argued the lawyer.
There are other suspects who were locked away from the toilet and forced to urinate in that room which is unclean, added the lawyer. "How can we trust that the urine sample belonged to the defendant," exclaimed Al Hammad.
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