Dubai: "The City that Cares"
In an effort to educate those who might be considering Emirates/Dubai, I think it might be appropriate to provide information on the city they are considering staking their futures in.
Anyone who comes across articles which might be appropriate to educate the masses please feel free to add them.
Here is the first. Background info is the girl in question was a new Emirates flight attendant and the two groups worked together (one in a Toyota Land Cruiser, one in a Hummer). Welcome to justice Dubai style.
Rape case verdict
Monday, 20 February 2006
The victim of a gang rape stormed out of a Dubai courtroom yesterday after hearing that two of the six defendants on trial for the assault were found not guilty because of insufficient evidence.
Four others, aged between 19 and 21, including two brothers, were sentenced to two years in prison each by the Dubai court of first instance for the attack, last September, on a 23-year-old British woman.
The court also awarded the victim temporary damages of dhs10,000 plus legal costs. The public prosecutor will appeal the judgement, looking for a tougher sentence.
The victim's lawyer, Hamdan Al Harmi, yesterday expressed his client's anger over the acquittal of the two defendants but said they will now file a civil action for further damages.
Medical evidence during the trial showed that the victim had sustained undisclosed injuries resulting from the rape which took place in a remote part of the desert, near the Ras Al Khaimah road.
The victim had accepted the offer of a lift home from the group of young men in Jumeirah after being intimidated by another group of youths. However, the two gangs were working together and instead the woman was driven to the desert where the men took turns in raping her in the car.
The gang later drove her back and dropped her off at Al Mullah Plaza and the victim alerted the police.
A taxi driver was able to provide police with a description the suspects' vehicle descriptions, leading to the gang's arrest within the same day. Four were held without bail in the lead up to the trial.
Wonder what the sentence would have been had it been 6 Indians and a local UAE Muslim girl; I suspect significantly more than 2 years.
This is the place you will bring your wife and daughters and it is getting worse. Just a heads up.
Last edited by Dune; 22nd February 2006 at 09:06.
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