An American citizen in the United Arab Emirates has been sentenced to a yr in jail and a superb of roughly $2700 fascinated with a parody video posted to YouTube about Dubai teens. Shezanne Cassim has been held in the UAE seeing that April, and his domestic didn’t even in finding out he was jailed unless 5 months later.

His family says he’s being charged with “endangering national safety,” and this week Cassim used to be officially sentenced to a year in jail.

His case caught the world’s consideration, with a world #FreeShez motion that garnered incredibly public fortify from Will Ferrell‘s comedy site Humorous or Die.

The parody video depicts a combat college of varieties for gangsters, where they discover ways to shield themselves the usage of sandals, whips, and hashtags on Twitter.

If you want to comprehend precisely what landed Cassim in jail, watch the video in question below:

[photo via screengrab]

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