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Woman Raped in Dubai and was jailed for it.

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IBMer

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Gali was using her laptop in the hotel’s staff bar when her drink was spiked. She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/17094076/abandoned/

This is why I'll never go to Dubai. I don't know how anyone could go there with issues like this.
 
Even worse, if she had testified that she had been drugged, she could have been put in jail for life for drug offenses.
 
That story is severely lacking detail.

It does say that the men were prosecuted, served prison terms, and were deported.

This story seems to be about getting back at the hotel and the consulate for things they may or may not have done.

Good luck to her on that but it appears that justice was served.
 
More of the details are in the videos, I just finished watching. The men who raped her were prosecuted but were also pardoned at the same time she was 8 months later.
 
xBiffx said:
That story is severely lacking detail.

It does say that the men were prosecuted, served prison terms, and were deported.

This story seems to be about getting back at the hotel and the consulate for things they may or may not have done.

Good luck to her on that but it appears that justice was served.
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If she spent 8 months in prison I don't think justice was served.

Dubai's architecture is a thin facade for what is still a back asswards society. Wasn't long ago they were barely removed from living in tents and now they sit a thousand feet up behind glazed windows and bathed in chilly A/C.

http://gawker.com/5600949/experience-dubais-change-over-the-past-thirty-years.

Their drug laws are even more fucked. These guys allege being tortured in custody:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/06/dubai-british-tourists-torture_n_2817385.html

Jailed for cannabis weighing less than the weight of a grain of sugar:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...stoms-cannabis-weighing-grain-sugar-shoe.html

Compared to North America, Europe, a handful of other civilized societies, you have no legal recourse in Dubai. The legal system, human rights, individual rights are all incredibly immature and you are pretty much looking at a shitty time if you happen to cross the law, whether for a valid or non-valid offense.

It's fun in the sun until you see the underbelly.
 
Doppel said:
If she spent 8 months in prison I don't think justice was served.

Dubai's architecture is a thin facade for what is still a back asswards society. Wasn't long ago they were barely removed from living in tents and now they sit a thousand feet up behind glazed windows and bathed in chilly A/C.

http://gawker.com/5600949/experience-dubais-change-over-the-past-thirty-years.

Their drug laws are even more fucked. These guys allege being tortured in custody:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/06/dubai-british-tourists-torture_n_2817385.html

Jailed for cannabis weighing less than the weight of a grain of sugar:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...stoms-cannabis-weighing-grain-sugar-shoe.html

Compared to North America, Europe, a handful of other civilized societies, you have no legal recourse in Dubai. The legal system, human rights, individual rights are all incredibly immature and you are pretty much looking at a shitty time if you happen to cross the law, whether for a valid or non-valid offense.

It's fun in the sun until you see the underbelly.
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Give them a break, because it really takes enormous talent you can't find anywhere else to squeeze black hydrocarbons off rocks that Mother Earth decided to put there.
 
BlahBlahYouToo said:
And this is what America will become if we continue to be tolerant to this "religion".
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As long as our government and laws remain secular, I don't see a problem with being tolerant of any religion. They're all made up anyway.
 
You can't fix stupid. All the wonderful buildings and stuff that oil money has allowed them to create is just a facade, they are still the same crazies stuck in the middle ages.
 
Broheim said:
I simply don't understand why people go to the middle east, it's such a shitty place.
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You can travel to almost any country in the world and enjoy yourself during a short stay. Historical and natural landmarks, museums, restaurants, beaches, people, etc.

Granted, if you pull your typical American family out of Walmart and give them an all-expense paid trip to Iran, they'll probably have a bad time.

But I think I'd have a pretty great time in Iran: http://imgur.com/a/AZLY9

Would I move to the middle east? Nope. Vacation? Sure.
 
Everything is acceptable for Saudi Arabia as long as they keep pumping oil for us. Move along, look at Syria instead.
 
gevorg said:
Everything is acceptable for Saudi Arabia as long as they keep pumping oil for us. Move along, look at Syria instead.
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Dubai is in the UAE, not Saudi Arabia.

Regardless, what is your solution? War? Stop buying oil from the ME completely?
 
jpeyton said:
You can travel to almost any country in the world and enjoy yourself during a short stay. Historical and natural landmarks, museums, restaurants, beaches, people, etc.

Granted, if you pull your typical American family out of Walmart and give them an all-expense paid trip to Iran, they'll probably have a bad time.

But I think I'd have a pretty great time in Iran: http://imgur.com/a/AZLY9

Would I move to the middle east? Nope. Vacation? Sure.
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Awesome photos.
 
jpeyton said:
You can travel to almost any country in the world and enjoy yourself during a short stay. Historical and natural landmarks, museums, restaurants, beaches, people, etc.

Granted, if you pull your typical American family out of Walmart and give them an all-expense paid trip to Iran, they'll probably have a bad time.

But I think I'd have a pretty great time in Iran: http://imgur.com/a/AZLY9

Would I move to the middle east? Nope. Vacation? Sure.
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Damn, those are gorgeous, would have never known Iran had any kind of natural beauty. Its a pity traveling there now as a US citizen would more or less result in insta-jailing on trumped up charges.
 
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