Dubai cops help prisoner attend daughter's graduation virtually

A student got to celebrate her graduation with her father, who is serving time at a Dubai prison. The police helped the prisoner attend his daughter's graduation ceremony virtually.

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Brigadier Ali Mohammed Al Shamali, Director of the General Department of Punitive and Correctional Establishments at the Dubai Police, said: "We were approached by the graduating student with a plea to allow her imprisoned father to join the graduation ceremony."

The ceremony was held virtually by the university in compliance with the precautionary measures against Covid-19.

"The department was keen to fulfil the student's wish and grant her father the opportunity to witness this important day of his daughter's life," Brig. Al Shamali added.

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