Posted on 08/10/2018 3:36:52 PM PDT by Simon Green
A mother from the U.K. claimed she was arrested and jailed in Dubai for drinking one glass of wine onboard an Emirates flight last month.
On July 13, Dubai International Airport immigration officers arrested and jailed Ellie Holman, 44, and her 4-year-old daughter in a detention center as her flight landed in the Persian Gulf country following an eight-hour flight. According to Holman, she was arrested because she drank a glass of red wine with her meal onboard the flight from London.
Holman told MailOnline that an immigration officer questioned her upon arrival and then instructed her to purchase a ticket back to London immediately because her visa had expired. The officer then asked Holman if she had been drinking and sternly informed her that it was a crime to possess or consume alcohol in the UAE.
“I told him I had a glass of wine on the flight. It was given to me free by Emirates Airlines staff,” she said.
Holman pulled out her phone to record the incident but was quickly shut down by armed police who led the pair to an airport cell where their phones and passports were confiscated.
Shortly after, authorities transported Holman and her daughter to a police station for an alcohol test. There, Holman said they were denied access to the lavatory, forced to beg for food and water, and made to sleep on the floor of the prison’s canteen.
“My little girl had to go to the toilet on the cell floor. I have never heard her cry in the same way as she did in that cell,” she said.
According to Yahoo7 News, Holman’s partner—who was only identified by his first name, Gary—flew to Dubai when he found out about the incident.
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I know I have said it before but Islam is a stupid religion.
OMG , don’t wear of carry anything that they may think is Black Magic ,you’ll be executed on the spot
Who beside a whacked out muslim, would go to Dubai for anything?
Sounds like the Sand People have quite the little racket going there.
She should have made sure her visa was straight
Wine is available in Dubai. What gives?
They let her on flight with expired visa?
I have no sympathy for anyone landing in the rough when visiting any 3rd world ****hole. Especially if it’s a muslim ****hole.
Only exceptions are if it’s made necessary because of job. Otherwise, they went, they own whatever happens to them all on their lonesome.
Emirates Airlines will need to do something about this pretty fast
This is what the left will make America like given half a chance. Believe it.
Exactly. Something isn’t adding up here. There must be more to the story.
There is certainly more to this story, that we probably don’t want to know.
Oh look a detention center, where are the alphabets?
Yes, there has to be more to this story. I've gotten plenty drunk at multiple hotel bars many times on many visits to Dubai.
This being said, on my flights to Dubai, alcohol was not sold. Only on flights out of Dubai was alcohol permitted to be sold and consumed.
The attitude in many Sunni Muslim countries is you can get as drunk as you want within the confines of the hotel but that's where you need to stay.
Dubai is awesome. One of my favorite places in the world.
My passport is filled w/ stamps for all the times I transited through Dubai. I spent many a week there in the past. You could buy booze. Nightclubs abound.....Dubai airport even has liquor stores. Perhaps things have changed?
There’s more to this story.
The most rude and disrespectful travelers by far I ever encountered were heavily drinking British nationals aboard British Airways flights.
What the UAE (Dubai anyway) does not tolerate is drunken, disrespectful loudmouth behavior.
Nupe, never at all ever.
(That said, there just might be a pretty long list of countries that I choose to not visit. And, a couple of USA states that I avoid when possible.)
Why was alcohol even on that plane? And why do people insist on going to muzzie countries for vacations?
Dubai is not even remotely a 3rd World country. Not by any stretch of the definition.
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