Day: March 14, 2010

United Arab Emirates: Pair Jailed for Kissing

United Arab Emirates: (UAE) British pair face jail for kissing in Dubai
— London Times: “Ayman Najafi, 24, and a female British tourist are appealing against a one month jail sentence for restaurant kiss”

— Daily Telegraph reports:
— “The couple were arrested after a 38-year-old local woman reported their behaviour at Bob’s Easy Diner on November 27 at 2am.”
— “She said her daughter had witnessed the couple kissing each other on the mouth, and then she had seen the same thing.”
— “‘I also saw them touching each other, as they were seated two to three metres away from our table,’ her statement, read to the first hearing, said. ‘A number of customers witnessed the scene as well.'”
— “At the appeal hearing on Sunday, Mr Najafi said the pair’s behaviour had not been inappropriate.”
— “‘We kissed each other on the cheek as a greeting, nothing more,’ he told Judge Aysar Fouad. Miss Adams pointed at her cheek to show where contact had taken place.”

Updates on Charlotte Adams case:
— May 10, 2010: United Arab Emirates – Briton jailed for kiss in Dubai condemns Emirate’s ‘hypocrisy’

— Express report

— April 21, 2010: (UAE) British woman goes to jail in Dubai kissing case — Charlotte Adams

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Pakistan: Report of Attack on Christian Family to Get Withdrawl of Rape Cape — Muneeran Bibi

Pakistan Christian Post reports:
— “Mr. Ezra Shujaat advocate have filed a Writ Petition in High Court to lodge First Information Report FIR against Muslim attackers on a Christian Family when police denied to register case on request of injured family.”
— “According to reports, on February 26, 2010, at 3;00 PM when Muneeran Bibi along with her father and other sisters was doing house hold, five Muslims, Mohammad Sajid equipped with pistol, Mohammad Shareef equipped with Knife, Mohammad Wajid holing a stick, and two unknown persons forcibly entered in their home and started beating them,”
— “Mohammad Shreef loudly instructed his companions to kidnap Muneeran and her younger sister Sheena, but when the family resisted, they torn the clothes of Muneeran and others.”
— “Mohammad Shareef attacked Muneeran and gave four injures with knife, Muneeran fell down unconscious, during this people from neighbor hood came and attackers ran away.”
— “Muuneeran Bibi was taken to hospital but fist police refused to lodge FIR on which Advocate Ezra Shujaat filed writ petition in court and got the order for lodging FIR,”
— “In fact on 8th April 2007,on Easter Sunday .the younger sister of Muneeran ,named Sheena aged 13 years was kidnapped and sexually abused by four Muslims.”
— “The trial of kidnapping of Sheena is pending in court and on final stage. Now,the family was attacked to pressurize them to withdraw pending case”