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Gulf prince accused of 25 torture assaults
Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE prince at the centre of a "torture tape" scandal in the US has been accused of attacking at least 25 other people in incidents caught on film. Sheikh Issa is under investigation in the UAE after a tape released in the US showed him beating a man with a nailed plank, setting him on fire, attacking him with a cattle prod and running him over. Now lawyers for the American businessman who smuggled the tape out of the UAE claim to have considerably more evidence. "I have more than two hours of video footage showing Sheikh Issa's involvement in the torture of more than 25 people," Texas-based lawyer Anthony Buzbee claimed in a letter. The new tapes also apparently involve police officers. Some of the victims are believed to be Sudanese immigrants. Buzbee said he would provide the videos to the Abu Dhabi authorities who have pledged to investigate the matter. "I also have access to at least three witnesses, all of whom will testify that the brutality exhibited in the videos by Sheikh Issa is part of a pattern of conduct that has gone on for some time ... I can also provide additional witnesses who were actually present during several of Sheikh Issa's torture sessions," he said. Posted by: Fred 2009-05-04 |
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