Couples arrested in Dubai for public sexual intimacy

[Faris]

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN -- A Dubai appeals court judge has upheld the verdict against a British couple caught kissing in public.

Unless the couple makes a second appeal within 30 days, the court's decision Sunday means authorities will jail the couple for a month and then deport them. They will also be fined $300 for drinking alcohol.

Ayman Najafi and Charlotte Adams were arrested in November, accused of kissing and touching each other intimately in public -- violations of law against public indecency -- and consuming alcohol.

Najafi is a British man who lives and works in Dubai; Charlotte Adams is a British female tourist who was visiting the city-state at the time.

The couple was dining with friends at Bob's Easy Diner, one of a stretch of cafes on a popular strip behind the city's Jumeirah Beach. An Emirati woman with her family reported their behavior to police.

The foreign population has soared in Dubai in recent years as expatriates, courted by the country, flock to the booming emirate to work.

Now, expatriates outnumber locals by more than eight to one in the port city -- one of seven emirates that make up the oil-rich Gulf nation.

But the population changes and the breakneck modernization of the sheikdom has also often caused friction with the deeply conservative social and religious identity of the locals.

In 2008, a British couple were sentenced to three-month jail terms for unmarried sex and public indecency, but those were suspended on appeal.

The two were arrested on a public beach shortly after midnight. Both denied they had intercourse.
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i can see why her boyfriend couldnt keep his hands off her, well i hope it was worth it.

[Blarg]

Bob's Easy Diner... are there many restaurants named like that?

on a unrelated note, the UFC is coming to Abu Dhabi in a week, are you a fan of punchkickfighting, firas?

[Fistandantilus]

You could at least add some commentary, instead of posting a thread that might as well say "Arab culture does something Westerners find ridiculous, but even I'm not surprised enough to say much"

I mean, is anyone really surprised? Does anyone aside from the people involved and their families really care? It's not very surprising that when your locals become outnumbered 8:1 that trying to keep everything the exact same isn't going to go over very well.

[kareface]

More stupidity for stupidities sake. It's like Muslim countries are trying to one up each other to see who can enforce the most ignorant aspects of a fairy tale.

[Shalyn]

What gets me is that they pull in people for work there who have are known to be exposed to a much more liberal environment. Shouldn't the people hiring foreigners have to take some responsibility? They're the ones making the money off of them, and if the locals are pissed about it why don't they take it out on those bringing the 'problems' in? To be honest, I don't think I could ever bring myself to go to UAE.

[Galkaeater]

bomb em

[Kerberoz]

Isn't this the country that sends you to jail for having poppy seeds or Benadryl?

[Khajit]

Considering the stuff people get arrested for in the middle east isn't the couple retarded as well?
I dont think people from the Columbia can go out and snort lines of crack at a park and Jamaicans dont get to smoke the buffalo soldier everywhere they go.

[Tankjr]

Considering the stuff people get arrested for in the middle east isn't the couple retarded as well?
I dont think people from the Columbia can go out and snort lines of crack at a park and Jamaicans dont get to smoke the buffalo soldier everywhere they go.

Damn, man.

http://www.cultureshlock.com/main/im...stereotype.jpg

[Khajit]

No man I cant give you the medical Marijuana. It's still illegal for me to give it to you.

[Cyn]

snort lines of crack

It doesn't really work that way.

[Qalbert]

Considering the stuff people get arrested for in the middle east isn't the couple retarded as well?
I dont think people from the Columbia can go out and snort lines of crack at a park and Jamaicans dont get to smoke the buffalo soldier everywhere they go.

spoilered for NSFW randy marsh balls

Spoiler: show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMqaYyiyfrY

[Yuri-G]

It doesn't really work that way.

I totally missed that... lol, snort lines of crack.

[vagus]

Should have known the rules being head to another country. Idiots. Respect the laws of the country you're in. Just like Michael Fay who littered in Singapore and got cained.

[Cyn]

It was for vandalism.

[Alleya]

Should have known the rules being head to another country. Idiots. Respect the laws of the country you're in. Just like Michael Fay who littered in Singapore and got cained.

Yeah, fuck human rights. The law is immutable and must be followed in all instances.

[Khajit]

Oh yes, because being unable to make out in public is an unalienable right being taken from us and not a minor inconvenience until you go inside and bang all night long.

[Zalius]

two people followed money into a place with blind politics. aw, how sad.

[noblemountain]

Oh yes, because being unable to make out in public is an unalienable right being taken from us and not a minor inconvenience until you go inside and bang all night long.

No, that's illegal too. They aren't married.

[Mayareira]

Well, you do have to pay attention to the laws at the place you are visiting. I can drink on the streets at the age of 18 in Istanbul, but I don't think that'd be a good idea here in North AL. You fascists taking my drinking right away from me.

Laws may be stupid, but not obeying them is generally more stupid.