UAE Court Dispenses Severe Action against Bangladeshi Rioters
Transgressions by the violent protestors have attracted the strictest penalties.
Last week’s Bangladeshi rioters picked the wrong government to mess with. Disgruntled by their home country’s controversial job quota’s bill, they decided to vent their frustration on their adopted country – the UAE. Well, now, the Gulf nation that had provided the foreigners with decent work and living conditions, has not taken kindly to their violent protests and illegal gatherings. Lest we forget, some serious mayhem unfolded between Friday, July 19th and Monday, July 22nd.
A fast track UAE court have ordered 53 of the arrested miscreants to be deported back to Bangladesh after serving 10-year prison terms, while one illegal migrant will also be shipped back after staying 11 years in jail. These persons were found guilty of numerous public offences including disrupting public transportation, obstructing law enforcement and causing damage to property. For more serious crimes of inciting protests and proliferating provocative audio-visuals, 3 other protestors have been slapped with life terms.
On the orders for an immediate probe by UAE’s Attorney-General - Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi - a group of 30 investigators captured and the brought the guilty to book. Among the slew of charges laid down were – inciting unrest, threatening public security and causing nationwide instability. Many of the arrested persons confessed to their wrong-doings, but little good did that do them.
It was clear that the UAE’s judiciary was not in the mood to pull any punches, conceding to the Public Prosecution’s demand for maximum penalty. A witness corroborated the accusations while a defence lawyer’s pleas for inadequate evidence and acquittal of the accused, fell on deaf ears. It looks like the guilty parties will now have several years to reflect on their crimes, while Bangladeshi’s job quota bill (which sought to give 30% reservation to relatives of the country’s independence war veterans), is in the process of being retracted after all. How’s that for a lost cause.
