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His Highness Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Fujairah, has ordered the release of 47 prisoners of various nationalities, who had proven their eligibility for the amnesty, from the Penal and Correctional Institution in the emirate.

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The Fujairah Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling sentencing a woman deputy manager of a company to a suspended six-month jail term for stealing Dh27,500 from the company’s safe. Her sentence has been suspended for three years.

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A 37-year-old shepherd was sentenced on Monday to six months in jail for trying to kill a woman with a knife in her flat.

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His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, ordered on Tuesday the release of 422 prisoners serving terms at various reformative and punitive institutions in the emirate of Dubai.

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The RAK Police rescued a 50-year-old Emirati man who sustained serious head injuries, cuts and haemorrhage, after slipping and falling outside a mosque on a mountain close to Asfini Valley.

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The Public Prosecution has referred two Indian workers, aged 24 and 27, to the Court of First Instance to stand trial on the charges of intentionally killing a compatriot and consuming liquor.

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A guard was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday for raping a maid at a hotel room, taking advantage of her being drunk following a night out.

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A former head of the ICU of a local hospital was sentenced to life imprisonment for premeditated murder by giving orders to his medical team not to resuscitate a quadriplegic patient and give him the necessary treatment when he suffered a heart attack.

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Customs inspectors have foiled an African man’s alleged attempt to smuggle about 13 million Saudi riyals (SR) through a UAE land port.

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