A British couple has been dealt with by a Dubai court in a trial which has seen them sent to jail for three months.
They have been sentenced to three-months in jail for sending erotic text messages to each other.
The Indian man and woman, working in Dubai, were sentenced after a judge ruled they had planned to "commit sin", which is a reference to extramarital sex.
The judge said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher sentence.
Extramarital sex is illegal in the United Arab Emirates.
The pair, aged 47 and 42, were working as cabin crew for Dubai's Emirates airline.
Last year, the texts were brought to light in a divorce case, in which the woman's estranged husband gave evidence.
| By TxtR, 03-18-10, 05:01 AM |
Phone messages condemn couple to jail in DubaiIs this thought crime? |
| By Jacklal, 03-18-10, 11:01 AM |
Stupid laws come up with stupid jail timeSex messages are nothing but that. The government is not going to give them sentence based on sex statements. If it is doing that then the government needs to change its rules. Otherwise the government is acting like some kind of a God. They know they not God, then why act like one. |
| By Sammyblog, 03-18-10, 12:26 PM |
A very sick societyFreedom........Freedom of choice........Freedom of expression..........Freedom to act..........
I do not know..Why the United Arab Emirates exists as a nation.....These people and their laws are very sick, sick, sick....YOU CANNOT PUT LAWS ON PEOPLE’S EMOTIONS, AND BEHAVIOR.....HYPOCRITS.........
Sammy, a free thinker
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| By goomba, 03-18-10, 09:45 PM |
| so the rich arabs go with endless whores in other countries while on holiday. hypocritical bastards |
| By Unregistereddfgd, 03-20-10, 04:10 AM |
| The issue here is not that the text messages were sexually explicit, its that the couple sending the sex-texts to one another were comitting an offense as the man was MARRIED.
Personally, I think more countries in the world should come down hard on this kind of this, infidelity is out of control in the west. |
