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United Arab Emirates and the Slow Wheels of Justice?

Dr. Cyril Karabus has been held in custody in Abu Dhabi for 8 months accused of manslaughter and falsifying documents. Initially this was in a bare Abu Dhabi prison cell within a particularly notorious prison. After numerous frustrated attempts to secure bail in court, he was eventually released from prison after two months minus his confiscated passport. He was ordered not to leave the UAE and required by force of law to remain as an involuntary paying visitor and separated from his family in what is probably the world's most expensive open-air prison. The case relates to a 2003 conviction in abstentia of Prof Karabus after the death of a 3-year-old leukaemia patient who Karabus had treated while doing a locum in Abu Dhabi in 2002. He was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in absentia. In August 2012 Karabus was arrested while in transit through the UAE returning from his son's wedding in Canada. A medical review committee found Karabus was not to blame for the death of the young cancer patient over a decade ago and he was acquitted and completely exonerated. However, the prosecutors appealed his acquittal. The appeal was due to be heard on 9 April but was immediately postponed to 23 April by the judge. While Karabus is not yet free, the Judge  rejected the prosecutors appeal. The prosecution still has 20 days to make a second appeal and therefore Karabus fate is still uncertain.

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