In a press release, the Israeli International Ministry mentioned: “The case is understood and we’re dealing with it via the consular service and our representatives within the Emirates.” It declined to remark additional.
Israeli media reported that Kiwan, who owns a images studio in Haifa in northern Israel, got here to Dubai for work a few 12 months in the past. She was arrested per week later after police discovered the cocaine within the condominium she was staying in. Kiwan reportedly claimed the medicine weren’t hers.
CNN has reached out to the UAE’s Ministry of International Affairs for remark.
Demise sentences are not often carried out within the UAE. Ziv Agmon, an Israeli lawyer specializing in Emirati legislation, who is not concerned on this case, informed CNN he anticipated the UAE’s courts to commute the sentence. He added that there isn’t a formal repatriation settlement between the UAE and Israel.
The institution of diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE, as a part of the Abraham Accords signed in 2020, has led to a surge in Israeli guests to the UAE. Not all of them have been vacationers and businesspeople. “Our Dubai workplace seen an increase in prison instances that Israeli residents are a part of,” mentioned Agmon. “Israelis have to grasp that the authorized authorities in Dubai deal with drug instances critically.”