Holding Hands, Drinking Wine and Other Ways to Go to Jail in Dubai
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Holding Hands, Drinking Wine and Other Ways to Go to Jail in Dubai
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.
Mr. Haigh, a former managing director of Leeds United Football Club and a partner in Ms. Stirling’s law firm, said he was jailed for 22 months and tortured repeatedly in an attempt to force him to sign a confession,
but never managed to see a copy of the charges to which he was supposed to confess.
11, 2017
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Scottish electrician named Jamie Harron, visiting Dubai
as a tourist, was sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man in a bar.
Dubai said that Ninety percent of the population are breaking the law 90 percent of the time
and no one does anything against them until they upset the wrong p
He could face six months in jail if convicted of making the "obscene gesture." Mr. Mukadam said he had often visited Dubai with his wife and
that he liked the city, particularly its variety of halal food, but does not plan to return.
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.
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.
Mr. Haigh, a former managing director of Leeds United Football Club and a partner in Ms. Stirling’s law firm, said he was jailed for 22 months and tortured repeatedly in an attempt to force him to sign a confession,
but never managed to see a copy of the charges to which he was supposed to confess.
11, 2017
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Scottish electrician named Jamie Harron, visiting Dubai
as a tourist, was sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man in a bar.
Dubai said that Ninety percent of the population are breaking the law 90 percent of the time
and no one does anything against them until they upset the wrong p
He could face six months in jail if convicted of making the "obscene gesture." Mr. Mukadam said he had often visited Dubai with his wife and
that he liked the city, particularly its variety of halal food, but does not plan to return.
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.