Holding Hands, Drinking Wine and Other Ways to Go to Jail in Dubai
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/world/middleeast/dubai-crimes-united-arab-emirates-jail.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur
The British head of a professional soccer team, David Haigh,
was ordered jailed for seven months for a tweet that he says
could not have been from him -- since he was already in jail
without a phone. An Australian aid worker living in Dubai,
Scott Richards, was locked up for trying to raise money to buy
blankets for freezing Afghan children, because he was not part
of a recognized charity ... Even victims of violent crimes
can be accused of morality offenses: Gay people who report
assaults have been jailed along with their attackers, and
women who report being raped can be imprisoned for adultery if
they do not have four male witnesses to support their story.
Radha Stirling, a British lawyer, says she has represented
hundreds of Westerners who have been jailed in Dubai for
behavior that is usually permitted there ... Mr. Harron, 27,
the Scottish electrician visiting Dubai, was arrested and
sentenced to three months in jail for public indecency for
allegedly touching a man's hip as he brushed past him in a
crowded bar. And a British man from Leicester, Jamil Ahmed
Mukadam, 23, is facing trial for giving the middle finger to a
Dubai driver who he said was tailgating him.
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Screw the oil, these savages should be cut off from the civilized world.
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