A Dubai court trying a man from another Gulf country on charges of offending Dubai’s police commander Lt General Dahi Khalfan Tamim will be sentenced next month.
The court on Sunday rejected a request by the 42-year-old defendant, identified as Mohammed, to summon General Tamim to testify in the case on the grounds the general had already filed a case against the man who made remarks on his Twitter page deemed as insulting against the police chief.
“The court adjourned hearings for sentence next month and decided to keep the defendant in custody,” Emirat Alyoum daily said.
It said the unnamed man is also being tried on charges of offending another person, which he denied in court.
Mohammed was reported last month to have slammed General Tamim for the second time on the grounds he did not try to resolve his problem presented to the police chief nearly four years ago.
General Khalfan said he ordered the arrest of the man after assailing him as a police commander and public servant, adding that it was not the first time this man had done this.