DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- A United Arab Emirates sheikh was acquitted Sunday of charges connected to the videotaped beating and torture of an Afghan grain dealer. Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the emirates' ruling family, was charged with rape, endangering life and causing bodily harm in connection with the nearly three-hour long tape shot in 2004 in the desert outside Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf region. However, the court acquitted Issa on Sunday, ruling he had diminished responsibility for his actions because of the effects of medication his defense attorney claimed he was given. Issa had a "lack of criminal responsibility," the court found, defense attorney Habib al-Mulla told CNN.
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Sheikh acquitted Sunday of charges linked to videotaped torture of Afghan grain dealer
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Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, is a member of the emirates' ruling family,
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He was charged with rape, endangering life and causing bodily harm
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In evidence was 3-hour tape shot in 2004 of the alleged incident
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