UAE commutes Israeli lady’s dying sentence to life imprisonment – Muricas News

On Thursday, July 7, the court docket of the emirate of Abu Dhabi commuted the dying penalty, through which Israeli citizen Fidaa Kivan was sentenced, to life imprisonment.

A resident of one of many suburbs of Haifa, the proprietor of a pictures studio, Fidaa Kivan was detained in March 2021 with 500 grams of cocaine. She claims that the medicine had been planted on her.

It's price noting that this isn't the one case of arrest of Israelis within the UAE for drug smuggling. Nonetheless, in different instances, both the sentences had been lighter or the trial remains to be ongoing. In one of many instances, we're speaking a couple of resident of Lod, Khalil Dasuki, who was arrested in Dubai for smuggling half a ton of cocaine.