What did they charge him with? Or is that concept not present in the UAE?
Dubai is the ultimate form of an religious oligarchy. I will never go to the Middle East let alone Dubai. There are many other beautiful and historic places to visit.
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Please, supply me with the details of whoever it was got imprisoned for disrespecting someone: as an English resident, I’ve never heard of this happening.
Of course, this could be fake news disseminated by Trump and is based on complete ignorance.
Lese majeste hasn’t been a crime in Britain since 2010, and I doubt you could find a case of anyone being gaoled for it even going back decades before that.
Yeah, it’s a shame to see links to The Sun from BoingBoing, regardless of how grim a place Dubai might be. It’s a terrible institution diametrically opposed to everything I associate with BB, to the extent that I wouldn’t even know where to start cataloguing the issues. Suffice to say it does real harm on a daily basis.
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Unfortunately, you are right.
Despite the institutionalized and systemic racism, misogyny, and slavery Dubai is still a vacation destination for a lot of people in the western world. Why are we giving people like Leonardo DiCaprio, Claudia Schiffer, David Beckham, Giorgio Armani, John Travolta, or Tom Cruise a pass for spending their money and time in Dubai? Why aren’t we calling out the celebrities who support slavery and other human rights abuses?
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