A man subject to regular drug testing as part of a mandated rehabilitation programme tried to cheat a test by providing a clean urine sample from his younger brother, a Dubai court heard.
The Emirati offender ― whose age was not disclosed ― was ordered to be regularly screened under supervision from Dubai Police's anti-narcotics team after being caught taking drugs.
Officers said he was caught hiding a syringe filled with urine in his underwear during a routine search at his scheduled appointment in September.
“When we questioned him about it he admitted it contained a clean urine sample he took from his younger brother to submit it and get clear results,” an officer said in court.
He told investigators that he did so because he had recently taken drugs.
He was given a one-year prison sentence and fined Dh10,000 by Dubai Criminal Court in October for trying to manipulate testing results and using drugs.
The man challenged the verdict at Dubai's Court of Appeal, admitting that he had used amphetamine and methamphetamine but denying he had carried a clean urine sample to alter his test result.
Judges on Thursday rejected his plea and upheld the sentence against him.
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The device has a screen reader or software that monitors what happens on the screen
The screen reader sends the text to the speech synthesiser
This converts to audio whatever it receives from screen reader, so the person can hear what is happening on the screen
A VOISS computer costs between $200 and $250 depending on memory card capacity that ranges from 32GB to 128GB
The speech synthesisers VOISS develops are free
Subsequent computer versions will include improvements such as wireless keyboards
Arabic voice in affordable talking computer to be added next year to English, Portuguese, and Spanish synthesiser
Partnerships planned during Expo 2020 Dubai to add more languages
At least 2.2 billion people globally have a vision impairment or blindness
More than 90 per cent live in developing countries
The Long-term aim of VOISS to reach the technology to people in poor countries with workshops that teach them to build their own device
