A young 25-year-old Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail after she reported a rape in Dubai. She was on a business trip when she was raped and reported the assault to the local police.
Dubai police did not believe her, and instead took her passport and jailed her on suspicion of having had sex outside marriage.
'I received the harshest sentence for sex outside marriage, harshest sentence for drinking alcohol and on top of that I was found guilty of perjury,’ the woman told Verdens Gang.
The young Norwegian woman's story is not unique.
Earlier this year Australian Alicia Gali, 27, was also thrown in a Dubai jail for eight months after she reported a rape.
She was working at hotel chain Starwood when her drink was spiked in the staff bar.
She awoke to find that three colleagues had raped her, but when she went to a hospital for help, they turned her over to the police and she was charged with illicit sex outside marriage.
Under UAE law, rapists can only be convicted if either the perpetrator confesses or if four adult Muslim males witness the crime.
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