Beyond the looking-glass...

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From the UK Daily Telegraph:

A businesswoman who accused three men of gang rape has been arrested in Dubai and faces trial on charges of adultery.

Touria Tiouli, 39, from Limoges, in France, has had her passport confiscated and cannot leave Dubai after being charged under the emirate's Sharia law.

This declares any sexual relationship outside marriage to be illegal.

Mme Tiouli was on a business trip last October when, she alleges, she was raped by three men who offered her a lift home from a nightclub.

She reported the attack immediately to the Dubai police, who after investigating her claim arrested her rather than those she accused.

One of the men admitted to having "consensual sex" with Mme Tiouli, which made her, in the eyes of Dubai's judiciary, guilty of both adultery and making a false rape accusation. She could face up to 18 months in prison. None of the men has been charged.

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Dif'rent strokes for dif'rent folks, I guess.
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Cheers...

Comments

Normalno

[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

This is not so strange in Dubai. Everyone seems to forget that the party and western life atmosphere in Dubai exists only in a very small, tightly defined sphere. Once you get outside of that sphere, you're not in Kansas anymore so to speak. Dubai is one of the most hardcore islamic states in the world.

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Since that is the only report I've seen, and I keep seeing copies of it in different places, I suspect that there's a lot more to the story than that.