Abu Dhabi: Unauthorized Pictures of the Wrong Crime Scene…..
“ABU DHABI // A reporter for a Dubai Arabic-language newspaper who took photographs of a man threatening to jump from the top of a water tank appeared in court yesterday charged with taking unauthorised pictures of a crime scene. The journalist, IK, was accused at the Abu Dhabi Court of Misdemeanours of taking photographs without permission, not responding to orders from police and working as a journalist while her visa did not state that. Her newspaper confirmed she was a reporter but said her residency documents were being processed………… The Bangladeshi man was threatening to jump, claiming his employer had not paid his salary for months. The man, who eventually climbed down safely, worked in Sharjah and was protesting to the Attorney General his employer was holding his passport………”
And they were just rated better than Israel in press freedom by Reporters sans Frontières!
It was the wrong crime scene: she should have gone to the company that worked the man and refused to pay him for his hard work.
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