DUBAI: COURT OVERTURNS DRIVER’S DEATH PENALTY

March 23, 2013: A court in Dubai overturned a driver’s death penalty and acquitted him of killing a woman after he claimed police hung him on a wall and inserted pepper in his rectum to obtain a forced confession.
Citing lack of corroborated and inconsistent evidence, the Dubai Appeal Court scrapped the capital punishment levied against the 50-year-old driver, A.A., from Comoros Islands, and acquitted him of killing the 59-year-old Emirati woman, M.M.
“A.A. denied the accusation of premeditatedly murdering the woman and stealing her safe. He claimed during questioning that the police hung him on a wall and inserted pepper in his rectum to force him to confess to a murder which he insisted he did not commit. (Sources: gulfnews.com, 24/03/2013)