January 12, 2010

(In)Justice in the UAE

It remains a deeply troubling place. A prince is found not guilty on torture charges.

Sheikh Issa bin Zayed, brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and the President of the United Arab Emirates (and on of the world's worst sons), was acquitted yesterday of charges that he tortured an Afghan business associate on his ranch. A video leaked to ABC News shows Issa firing an automatic weapon around the man, stuffing sand in his mouth, sodomizing him with an electric cattle prod, lighting him on fire, and pouring salt on his bleeding wounds, but the court accepted his defense that he was drugged by his associates and was not aware of his actions.

While a raped British woman is brought up on charges.

In Dubai, a 23-year-old woman from London was assaulted by a waiter in a hotel toilet. She was celebrating her engagement with her boyfriend. The Muslim woman of Pakistani descent and her boyfriend went to the police and were themselves promptly arrested for "illegal drinking" and having sex outside of marriage. During the police interview, the woman admitted to sharing a hotel room with her 44-year-old fiancé and sharing a few drinks in celebration of their upcoming marriage. The couple is facing a six-year charge on the sex allegation alone.
Posted by armand at January 12, 2010 01:21 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs


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Dubai deserves to collapse into dust and be retaken by the desert. Fortunately, that's probably what will have happened 10 yrs from now.

Posted by: jacflash at January 13, 2010 10:11 PM | PERMALINK
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