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29 March 2024

Civil servants retrial over 'secret' cameras

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Abu Dhabi’s Court of Cassation has ordered a retrial of three acquitted senior civil servants on charges of violating women’s privacy by installing secret cameras at their room in their department, newspapers reported on Monday.
 
The three will be tried at a court with a new judge panel after they were acquitted of all charges by a Court of Appeals early this year.
 
They were earlier sentenced by a court to a suspended six-month imprisonment while an expatriate defendant was ordered deported from the UAE after they were found guilty.
 
The three, including the department’s director, have denied such charges, saying the camera was not secret and could be seen by everyone.

They said other cameras were also installed in the other sections of the department and that they are intended to ensure discipline.

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