Dubai sentences Norwegian woman who reported rape

[think]

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Source: BBC

19 July 2013 Last updated at 15:48 ET

A young Norwegian woman has spoken out about the 16-month prison sentence she received in Dubai after reporting a rape incident to police.

nterior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv was on a business trip in Dubai when she says she was raped.

The 25-year-old reported the March attack to the police but found herself charged with having extramarital sex, drinking alcohol, and perjury.

Convicted earlier this week, she says she is appealing against the verdict.

The appeal hearing is scheduled for early September.

Describing the sentence as "very harsh", she told the AFP news agency: "I am very nervous and tense. But I hope for the best and I take one day at a time. I just have to get through this."

The case has angered rights groups and the authorities in Norway.

Dubai's strict laws about extramarital sex have caught out foreign visitors in the past...

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23381448

[BlueJazz]

1. "The appeal hearing is scheduled for September" How nice of them to give her..

....a chance to explain thungs..IN TWO FUCKING MONTHS !

Religious nuts do their magic again...

[BlueJazz]

2. things..I was so pissed. :)

[Snake Plissken]

3. This is what the State of Texas is striving for

[ancianita]

4. And what are the humanitarian men of the world doing about this. Just getting angry. A little.

Alpha Dogs and their packs get hard over showing uppity women in ANY country that "you cannot be as free as we."

It's the LAW. It's the money. It's DUBAI, bitches. All your meat puppets are belong to us.

[sheshe2]

5. So they define rape as extramarital sex! and.....

the UAE's claims that it is attempting to end discrimination against women was undermined by a legal system that "prohibits the achievement of justice for cases of sexual violence against women".

Currently, the law stipulates that, to gain a rape conviction, there must either be a confession or for four adult male witnesses to the crime.

... oh and we need a confession or 4 MALE WITNESSES!!!!

[azurnoir]

6. sorry locking duplicate thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014542680