(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) The State Security District of the Federal Supreme Court today heard the prosecution witnesses' testimony in the A.B.A. case, widely referred to in the media as the 'Reem Ghost" case.
It was decided during the hearing, presided over by judge Falah Al Hajeri, to hold the next session on 21st April to hear the testimonies of the remaining prosecution witnesses and to announce who will be the legitimate heirs of the deceased after communicating with the US embassy in Abu Dhabi.
The court also ordered a medical committee to examine the defendant and to issue a report on her mental condition to determine how competent she was at the time of committing the crime.
The Prosecution showed a video of the defendant re-enacting the murder.
In the case, the Public Prosecutors accused A.B.A of stabbing American school teacher Ibolya Ryan to death in a mall on Reem Island in Abu Dhabi on December 1 last year with the intention of spreading terror and panic among people. She also attempted to kill a family residing in an apartment at Al Habtour Tower on Abu Dhabi Corniche by planting a homemade bomb she made outside the apartment. She ignited the bomb but it had failed to detonate.
The prosecutors also accused A.B.A. of 'collecting explosive materials,' which are prohibited to be assembled by law, without a licence, and also charged that the accused established and managed electronically an account on the Internet under a pseudonym with a view to promote ideas of a terrorist group, publishing through this account information intended to distort the reputation, prestige and stature of the state and undermine its figures, in addition to funding a terrorist organisation, knowing that it will be used in terrorist acts, and that she committed those crimes with terrorist intent to cause death, to stir fear among people, to compromise the stature of the state and threaten its security and stability.
The defendant appeared at the hearing, along with her relatives, media and representatives of civil society organisations in the UAE.
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