Last week, a video released by ABC News showed Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, the brother of the UAE Crown Prince, brutally torturing a man that he felt had cheated him out of $5,000 worth of grain.

Yesterday, the Government of Abu Dhabi “unequivocally condemn[ed] the actions depicted on the video” and the Human Rights Office of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department believes those actions “appear to represent a violation of human rights” and will “conduct a comprehensive review of the matter,” even though no charges were brought against either party involved.

On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch, an independent watchdog organization, called for the investigation and prosecution of Sheikh Issa.

This is the first official statement about the incident from the UAE and Abu Dhabi.

The political fallout from the torture video has been damaging to the country.

Yesterday, news broke that the video is causing delays in the civil nuclear deal between the US and UAE. Senior US officials said the administration is waiting to ratify the deal “because it believes sensitivities over the story can hurt its passage.”

The nuclear deal was signed in January by the Bush administration and the UAE, but Obama’s administration had to re-certify it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already signed it and sent it to Obama, but the torture video has held up proceedings indefinitely over fears that legislators against the deal will use the video as leverage.