Thread: British man faces jail in Dubai after brushing past man in bar / touching hip

I'm a man of the world and I think the guy's a 'cheese cake'.

I'm a man of unknown worlds and I can tell you (after not watching the video) THAT MAN NEEDS.....













A Go Fund Me page.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

When he found out the 290K was actually in baht per annum, the bonus was antibiotics, the car was a ten year old toyota corrola, and he'd have a sore arse most of the time.

I am sure you are their sex slave for less than 290K THB per annum, harry

you are getting a bad deal, poor harry

New York Times article about how we all close our minds to the dangers of being in the UAE because it seems like so much fun. Really it's like partying on the edge of a cliff...

By ROD NORDLAND


NOVEMBER 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.
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.
An Australian aid worker living in Dubai, Scott Richards, was locked up for trying to raise money to buy blankets for freezing Afghan children, because he was not part of a recognized charity.
Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, portrays itself as welcoming to foreigners. Its boosters claim it is the fourth most-visited tourism destination in the world, and it has at least 12 times as many foreign residents as citizens.

But a legal system based on a hard-line interpretation of Shariah law often lands foreigners in jail for offenses that few Westerners would dream were even crimes.
Recent examples cited by lawyers include holding hands in public; posting praise on Facebook for a charity opposed to fox hunting; drinking alcohol without a license; and sharing a hotel room with a person of the opposite sex (other than one’s spouse).

Mostly, the Dubai authorities look the other way when it comes to such behavior by foreigners — until they don’t. Hotels do not ask couples for their marriage licenses. Dubai has a lively night life, with numerous gay bars and nightclubs where East European prostitutes openly solicit customers.


Yet cohabitation is a crime, homosexuality is subject to the death penalty (though it is rarely imposed) and prostitution can be punished with lashes and even worse.

Even victims of violent crimes can be accused of morality offenses: Gay people who report assaults have been jailed along with their attackers, and women who report being raped can be imprisoned for adultery if they do not have four male witnesses to support their story.
Radha Stirling, a British lawyer, says she has represented hundreds of Westerners who have been jailed in Dubai for behavior that is usually permitted there.
“You go there and its facade is that all of this is legal, everyone is doing it, you think it’s O.K.,” said Ms. Stirling, who runs a British-based group, Detained in Dubai, that publicizes such cases. “But you offend someone and you’re the one who gets it.”
Two recent cases, both handled by Ms. Stirling, have aroused widespread ire in Britain, which has more nationals living in Dubai than any other Western country.

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. And a British man from Leicester, Jamil Ahmed Mukadam, 23, is facing trial for giving the middle finger to a Dubai driverwho he said was tailgating him.
Mr. Mukadam, a computer consultant, had been in a rental car, so it took the police a while to trace him. But six months later, in September, he was arrested at the airport upon returning to Dubai. He is now free on bail, without his passport, awaiting trial.
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.

Emiratis are mostly unapologetic about their country’s contradictions.
“Westerners’ culture differs from Arab culture,” Judge Ahmad Saif, head of the Dubai civil court, said in a recent interview with The National, a newspaper based in Abu Dhabi. “In their countries, flashing your middle finger or insulting another is not acceptable but it is not punishable by the law. The culture for people living in the U.A.E. is much different. At the end of the day, we are Muslims and committing such acts is not acceptable.”

Most cases that ensnare unwary foreigners involve morality offenses. It is against the law to drink without a license, for instance, but foreigners can only get one if they are residents. So any tourist who is drinking is doing so illegally, even in a licensed bar. Couples cannot share a room together if they are not married, even in their homes.
When Emlyn Culverwell, a 29-year-old South African, took his fiancée, Iryna Nohal, a Ukrainian, to a doctor in Dubai, complaining of stomach pain, the diagnosis was pregnancy — and the treatment was a phone call to the police. The couple were arrested and jailed when they could not produce a marriage license.
Some Emiratis acknowledge that their laws have not kept pace with a rapidly changing society.
“It is unreasonable to expect a country to warn each and every visitor about its complete set of rules and regulations in place,” Essam Tamimi, a Dubai lawyer, said in an email. “In a short period of time, Dubai has greatly developed and has become one of the world’s most diverse melting pots. That being said, laws in general are made to accommodate the society’s needs and the U.A.E., like most other countries, still has some changes to make.”

Dubai officials did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
Critics complain that the Emirates’ legal system is stacked against foreigners, and both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused the country of arbitrary detention and abuse of prisoners.
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.
Mr. Haigh had gotten into a business dispute with a Dubai bank, GFH Capital, that owned a stake in the team. He said he was tricked into coming to Dubai to resolve their differences, then jailed on arrival for breach of trust and held for several months without being allowed to see a lawyer.






Full artical here..

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/1...l.html?referer

^Again, why the fuck would any westerner wish to visit such a regressive Muslim shithole?

I honestly don't see anything remotely appealing about the place.

Originally Posted by khmen

^Again, why the fuck would any westerner wish to visit such a regressive Muslim shithole?

I honestly don't see anything remotely appealing about the place.

What a load of rubbish. You hardly see a muslim in Dubai, they are so outnumbered by expats.

I had a brilliant week last week in Jumeirah, turned into a typical tourist trap but clean beach, plenty of pretty girls in bikinis, great food, lots of drink and not an ounce of bother.

And grab a strange man's arse in a nightclub anywhere in the world and see what happens to you.

This bloke fucked up. He should fucking man up and admit it.

Som num na farang.

The UAE is alright.

Lots to see and do, good hotel deals, decent beaches, dunes, etc.

Probably been there a dozen or so times w/ the 1st half back when I was a drunken, whore mongering twat.
Still never had any problems.

Originally Posted by hick

The UAE is alright.

Lots to see and do, good hotel deals, decent beaches, dunes, etc.

Probably been there a dozen or so times w/ the 1st half back when I was a drunken, whore mongering twat.
Still never had any problems.

The only problems I've ever seen are from expats who can't hold their drink.

Originally Posted by hick

The UAE is alright.

Lots to see and do, good hotel deals, decent beaches, dunes, etc.

Probably been there a dozen or so times w/ the 1st half back when I was a drunken, whore mongering twat.
Still never had any problems.

it's probably like Thailand, you never had a problem, until you have one, because someone decided to make a problem for you

Expats stay there for 15 years, never a problem, and then one day, boom !!!

that's exactly the problem the article is mentioning, it's the hidden underlying MAJOR risk that you don't see

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The only problems I've ever seen are from expats who can't hold their drink.

then you should be very very safe, with your daily intake harry

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

it's probably like Thailand, you never had a problem, until you have one, because someone decided to make a problem for you

I could imagine someone wanting to make a problem for you. You're a c u n t.

Originally Posted by khmen

I can see how it may appeal as an R and R destination to expats based in even more repressive Arab shitholes like Saudi

...even then, once was enough...I found less-developed Manama (Bahrain) to be more interesting and its dumpier bars more alluring...

Originally Posted by khmen

Sorry Harry, you can extol the virtues of living in/visiting the ME as much as you like, as far as I'm concerned Dubai offers precisely fuck all which can't be found elsewhere in the world in a far more liberal environment.

Ultimately, aside from a few landmark buildings there is literally fuck all to see, there is no history, the people are a bunch of utter cunts, the cuisine isn't exactly world famous/any different to any other arab country, the beaches are at best average, the high end shops are the same as high end shops anywhere, the overpriced bars and whores are just the same as overpriced bars and whores as anywhere, the desert is just the fucking desert, exactly the fucking same as anywhere with a desert...just sand and sun and absolutely nothing else for miles on end.

What exactly is the attraction? What exactly is it that Dubai offers that can be found nowhere else?

I can see how it may appeal as an R and R destination to expats based in even more repressive Arab shitholes like Saudi, otherwise....?

I suspect the lack of income tax is also a big pull.

Originally Posted by khmen

What exactly is the attraction?

he can suck cocks in the sun and get paid for it generously,

what's not to like

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I suspect the lack of income tax is also a big pull.

Do they have tax agreement with the US and Europe for the repatriation of capital without additional tax ?

quite a few nightmare stories with employers (even ministry) emptying the accounts of expats by simply calling the bank manager,

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I suspect the lack of income tax is also a big pull.

Surely khmen knows that the only reason people go to the ME is for the big bucks, free housing, and no tax... there's no other reason for going there if you didn't have to, save to tick it off the list of places been to.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

he can suck cocks in the sun and get paid for it generously,

what's not to like

Buttplug if you thought that was true you'd be there getting your arse rammed by every Bangladeshi labourer you could find.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Buttplug if you thought that was true you'd be there getting your arse rammed by every Bangladeshi labourer you could find.

harry, thanks for sharing your sexual fantasy, but not I am not interested in them

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

harry, thanks for sharing your sexual fantasy, but not I am not interested in them

(*Buttplug books first flight to Dubai*)

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I could imagine someone wanting to make a problem for you. You're a c u n t.

And another one....

Guaranteed that her and the mates who have ditched her were all pissed out of their trees.

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The family of a British woman facing jail in Dubai after witnessing a hotel brawl have vowed to clear her name.
Asa Hutchinson, 21, was arrested after a group of her male friends began taking selfies with the man in his 50s from Sweden who had fallen asleep on a couch.

When he woke up, the enraged man, who is a technology company executive, began punching the boys, who fled the scene having suffered blows to their face and head.
Asa, a key account manager for global transportation company Time & Motion, claims she wasn’t with her friends when the row broke out but returned to the hotel lobby after hearing a commotion - only to be arrested by police.
She has been charged with assault and theft and faces the real threat of a custodial sentence .
Asa’s mother has defended her daughter, saying she is “absolutely and completely innocent”.
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Mum of young British woman facing jail in Dubai for 'throwing glasses in bin' after witnessing hotel brawl vows to clear her name - Mirror Online