DUBAI: Police dismiss Briton's rape allegations, arrest her on charges of premarital sex

[Liberal_in_LA]

DUBAI: Police dismiss Briton's rape allegations, arrest her on charges of premarital sex

January 13, 2010 | 7:39 am

When a distraught British woman went to the police in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to report she had been raped, she probably expected authorities to carry out a full criminal investigation and, hopefully, bring the offender to justice.

Dubai, after all, sells itself as a modern oasis paradise to the tourists and skilled expatriates on whom it depends.

But the questioning took a turn. Instead she and her fiance found themselves the subjects of an entirely different investigation. Police arrested the couple and charged them with having premarital sex after dismissing the rape allegations.

The woman, 23, and her 44-year-old boyfriend, both from London, were visiting Dubai as tourists and had rented a hotel room together. They were reportedly celebrating their recent engagement in the hotel bar when the woman became tipsy and went to the restroom, where she says she was raped by a waiter who followed her there.

Khamis Muzinah, deputy commander of the Dubai police, told Reuters the police "didn't find any proof that anything happened in the bathroom," but British tabloid the Sun reported that authorities did not even administer a rape kit until after a British Embassy official intervened.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/01/dubai-police-dismiss-womans-rape-allegations-charge-her-with-premarital-sex.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BabylonBeyond+%28Babylon+%26+Beyond+Blog%29

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Its the sharia and islam

[Ignis]

2. Disgusting.

There's some speculation that this poor woman was targeted for this crappy treatment by the Dubai police because she's a Muslim of Pakistani descent.

Only link I can at first glance is the Sun, but I've seen the same description of her elsewhere in other articles:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2799483/Dubai-waiter-rapes-British-girl-then-SHE-and-fiance-are-held-for-illegal-sex.html

[fasttense]

3. Not a nice place to visit or work.

Maybe the rich need to find a less threatening playground. Perhaps Halliburton should find a more liberal country to set up shop in. I'm sure their American employers wont mind if they move, maybe Iran or North Korea would be more to their liking.