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Abu Dhabi prosecutors have detained a member of the Gulf emirate’s ruling family as they investigate a video that appears to show him abusing an Afghan man, the Judicial Department said.
The move, reported by the official WAM news agency, is the first reported investigation of a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The video, aired last month by the U.S. network ABC, shows the Afghan, a grain merchant, being abused with an electric cattle prod, beaten with whips and a plank of wood with a nail in it, and driven over by a car at a desert location in 2004.
One man, who ABC said is Sheik Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, a half-brother of the emir and brother of the Emirates’ crown prince, pours what is said to be salt into the man’s wounds. A man in police uniform also takes part.
Issa has not commented on the accusations.
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