ABU DHABI — The Public Prosecution in the United Arab Emirates has ordered the arrest of four Arab nationals after they appeared in a video insulting an Asian community, the UAE’s official news agency WAM reported on Friday.

The Federal Public Prosecution for Information Technology Crimes has interrogated the four suspects and ordered their provisional detention, based on the report presented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the UAE Attorney General.

The report featured a video that has gone viral on social media in which four Arabs appeared to be mocking people of an Asian community, in an act that constitutes a breach of public morals, offenses, and assault to the privacy of others using information technology means. — Agencies