Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2010

UK Woman Reports Rape and Gets Jailed

I saw this on twitter and just had to share.  A woman in Dubai for with her fiance got too drunk celebrating her engagement and was sexually assaulted in the toilet by one of the hotel workers.  When she reported the rape she and her husband were jailed for their crime of sleeping together before marriage which is illegal in the UAE.

Now, pretty much the only way they can get out of the country is to get married there so that their crime of sex before marriage can be set aside.  I guess the sex life of the victim isn't off limits in rape cases in the UAE.

Read the whole article here