View Poll Results: Is EK biased towards locals?
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Is EK biased towards locals?
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The locals should get a better deal. Now we've got that out the way can Bliar shut the door to all those bloody foreigners and give me some value for my taxes!
As to nationality and the law, racism does not come close to nepotism and sexism here, check this out from yesterday's Gulf News:
Killer husband's death penalty commuted
By Mohammad Shamseddine, Staff Reporter
Abu Dhabi: A man who beat his wife to death has had his death penalty commuted to jail term by the Federal Supreme Court.
The convict will now serve one-and-a-half years in jail and will be deported, the court said. The convict, a Syrian identified as S.N., lived in Abu Dhabi with his two wives in the same house. On the evening of the murder, S.N. argued with one wife, identified as A.H. He told the public prosecution he slapped her twice in the face and left the house.
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S.N. told the prosecution he came back home at 11pm to find his wife standing on the kitchen balcony with "little clothes on her". He then slapped A.H. a few times in the face and grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to her room. Then he beat her with a rubber pipe.
When the other wife, M.N., tried to stop him from hitting A.H., S.N. pushed her away and continued the beating with the pipe. According to S.N., after he beat A.H. he took a shower. When he came out, she was lying motionless on the couch. He told the prosecution he checked her pulse and tried to revive her. He said he saw blood coming from her mouth followed by a yellow substance. S.N. then called the police.
During the investigation, he said he had been beating his wife for the past two months. He also said he once hit her with a skewer. S.N. claimed he could not remember how many times he beat his wife with the pipe on the day of the incident.
He said he never meant to kill her and claimed that his beatings "were not very severe". He also claimed A.H. hit herself against the wall many times. The public prosecution accused him of premeditated murder, but the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court revised the charges to fatal beating. The court sentenced S.N. to ten years in jail followed by deportation.
On appeal, the court raised the charges to premeditated murder and sentenced him to death. S.N. took his appeal to the Supreme Court. He told the court he never meant to kill A.H. The family of A.H. waived their right to the blood money. The Supreme Court overturned the lower court's ruling and imposed a year-and-a-half jail term followed by deportation.
On the night of the murder the husband repeatedly hit his wife with a rubber pipe. During the investigation the husband admitted to the public prosecution that he had been beating his wife for the past two months. He said he had never intended to kill his wife and claimed that his beatings were not very severe.
Ghost
As to nationality and the law, racism does not come close to nepotism and sexism here, check this out from yesterday's Gulf News:
Killer husband's death penalty commuted
By Mohammad Shamseddine, Staff Reporter
Abu Dhabi: A man who beat his wife to death has had his death penalty commuted to jail term by the Federal Supreme Court.
The convict will now serve one-and-a-half years in jail and will be deported, the court said. The convict, a Syrian identified as S.N., lived in Abu Dhabi with his two wives in the same house. On the evening of the murder, S.N. argued with one wife, identified as A.H. He told the public prosecution he slapped her twice in the face and left the house.
Dragged
S.N. told the prosecution he came back home at 11pm to find his wife standing on the kitchen balcony with "little clothes on her". He then slapped A.H. a few times in the face and grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to her room. Then he beat her with a rubber pipe.
When the other wife, M.N., tried to stop him from hitting A.H., S.N. pushed her away and continued the beating with the pipe. According to S.N., after he beat A.H. he took a shower. When he came out, she was lying motionless on the couch. He told the prosecution he checked her pulse and tried to revive her. He said he saw blood coming from her mouth followed by a yellow substance. S.N. then called the police.
During the investigation, he said he had been beating his wife for the past two months. He also said he once hit her with a skewer. S.N. claimed he could not remember how many times he beat his wife with the pipe on the day of the incident.
He said he never meant to kill her and claimed that his beatings "were not very severe". He also claimed A.H. hit herself against the wall many times. The public prosecution accused him of premeditated murder, but the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court revised the charges to fatal beating. The court sentenced S.N. to ten years in jail followed by deportation.
On appeal, the court raised the charges to premeditated murder and sentenced him to death. S.N. took his appeal to the Supreme Court. He told the court he never meant to kill A.H. The family of A.H. waived their right to the blood money. The Supreme Court overturned the lower court's ruling and imposed a year-and-a-half jail term followed by deportation.
On the night of the murder the husband repeatedly hit his wife with a rubber pipe. During the investigation the husband admitted to the public prosecution that he had been beating his wife for the past two months. He said he had never intended to kill his wife and claimed that his beatings were not very severe.
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Damn it guys would you not do the same if you were running your own country. I sure as hell would. What do you all fight for, vote for, when there is an election in your own country. Is it not the same. I find most of them very humble when the don't have to be, really!
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Of course the locals get a better deal but so what? It's their country!! We all know the score and (rightly or wrongly) we chose to work here, period.
Time to do the honourable thing on this particular thread and put-up or shut-up.
The Fox and Firkin
Time to do the honourable thing on this particular thread and put-up or shut-up.
The Fox and Firkin
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