Thursday 21/November/2024 – 04:16 AM
The Sheikh Zayed Court of Appeal ruled to accept the appeal submitted by an Uber driver against the one-year prison sentence issued against him, and acquitted him of the charge of harassing the artist Hala Al-Saeed at the top of the Dabaa axis in Giza Governorate.
Details of the acquittal of an Uber driver on charges of harassing artist Hala Al-Saeed
Last May, the artist Hala Al-Saeed filed a report against an Uber driver after she was subjected to harassment. The artist confirmed that she became angry with him after she found him stopping the car on a public road and began to take off some of his clothes.
For its part, the security services arrested the Uber driver accused of harassing the artist, Hala Al-Saeed, and brought him before the competent investigation authorities, and after hearing his statements, decided to release him pending the case, on a financial bail of 2,000 pounds.
The artist Hala Al-Saeed said during the investigations: This happened on 5/22/2024, around 11:30 am, on the Dabaa axis, after he took me from my house in Sodic in Beverly Hills. At that time, I was going for a ride, and that’s why I ordered a car from Uber. There was no one with me, and I was alone with him when I took the car to take me to my city, and I asked him for an Uber, and then he agreed to the trip. The car is BYD, its color shows me its number is 457, and what I knew is that the driver’s name is Mustafa, and as I said, I chose him randomly from Uber and rode with him of my own free will and I did not know that what happened would happen, and the first time I rode the car with him from my house, he did not talk to me at all, and he generally remained aware. Where do I want to go? We haven’t talked. When I first rode with the driver, he kept walking and wasn’t there. Anything strange until we went to the Dabaa axis, and after about seven minutes, I found him calming down and he went to park on the side, and then he told me that the car was faulty and I was going to go down to see the fault, because the pump had overheated.
While the accused Uber driver’s statements were as follows: I had an operation that affected my health and caused a stroke in my hand and muscle fibrosis, which made me drink a lot of water and take a muscle relaxant. I also take blood pressure medication that causes diuresis. On the day of the incident, I found a ride request from a man, and I discovered She is a woman, the artist Hala Al-Saeed, and on my way I stopped in the car and asked her to wait for a few minutes, and at the same time I wanted to relieve myself.
For its part, the Sheikh Zayed Prosecution referred the Uber driver, accused of harassing the artist Hala Al-Saeed on the Dabaa axis, to the misdemeanor court after the investigation into the incident was completed, and the session was set for July 27, as the first session of the accused, the Uber driver, accused of harassing the artist Hala Al-Saeed on the Dabaa axis.
When the first trial session of the accused driver was held, his defense requested the acquittal of his client, before the Sheikh Zayed Misdemeanor Court ruled to punish the Uber driver, with imprisonment for a year and a financial bail of 1,000 pounds. The accused filed an appeal against his imprisonment ruling, and the court set the first hearing for the appeal, and the defendant’s imprisonment ruling was upheld and rejected. Resume it.
Following the rejection of the appeal, the defense of the Uber driver accused of harassing the artist, Hala Al-Saeed, filed an appeal against his one-year imprisonment ruling. The November 20 session was set to consider the appeal, and by hearing the defendant’s defense plea, the Sheikh Zayed Court of Appeals ruled that the Uber driver accused of harassment was acquitted of the charges against him.
