A man has been detained in the United Arab Emirates over a comedy internet videotape that shows him dressed as an Emirati and pretending to buy flashy buses with clumps of cash, sanctioned media said.
The UAE occupant was indicted of posting” propaganda that stirs up the public opinion and harms the public interest”, the state WAM news agency said on Sunday.
His detention, pending examinations, was ordered by the Federal Prosecution for Combating Rumours and Cybercrimes. He was also charged with publishing content that” cuts the Emirati society”.
The man, who hails from a country in Asia according to WAM, is mugged in traditional Emirati blankets as he enters a luxury auto exchange with two sidekicks carrying a large charger of cash.
Speaking English with a Gulf Arab accentuation, he asks for the highest- priced auto and also rejects it, saying that at 2.2 million dirhams (nearly $600,000), it’s not precious enough.
“I need precious, family,” he says, tossing heaps of cash to the store sidekicks to buy coffee, and ordering four precious buses including a Rolls-Royce in a matter of seconds.
The videotape “reveals impudence and lack of appreciation of the value of plutocrat, in a manner that promotes a wrong and obnoxious internal image of Emirati citizens and ridicules them”, the WAM report said.
The Public Prosecution office also summoned the auto exchange’s proprietor, and prompted social media druggies to” consider societal characteristics and bedded values of the UAE society. so as to avoid falling under the force of the law”.
The UAE’s laws against spreading “rumours” and false information keep a tight rein on internet converse in the oil painting-rich Gulf monarchy.
Last month, a woman was given a six-month suspended captivity judgment after she posted videotape of an exchange at a UAE book fair with a Kuwaiti author who had been locked in the United States over coitus offences.
The woman was also fined a aggregate of 60,000 AED ($16,000) for irruption of sequestration and cuts, and had her Twitter account” permanently unrestricted”, WAM reported at the time.
