UAE confirms that Sheikh Issa Bin Zayed Al Nahyon, the brother of the crowned prince, has been arrested.

By: Abu Abdullah al-NakhliHe was captured on video torturing a man from Afghanistan. The victim was pounded with wooden sticks covered in nails. Afterwards, as the video shows, the prince poured salt into his wounds, literally.Human rights organizations went crazy when the video was published. This outrage and these protests forced the authorities to take action. It is clear that if the video was not published nothing would have happened. This is one of the reasons why protesting is so important.If this case continues in the judicial system and reaches a court it would be the first time that a member of the royal family in the UAE would be officially tried in a court of law.The Human Rights Watch applauded this development but stated: “Much more needs to be done to restore faith in the country’s police and justice system.”