Posted on 10/02/2023 8:09:44 PM PDT by algore
A New York business arts student has been jailed for a year in Dubai after she tapped an airport security officer on the arm during a strip search as they checked her medical waist binder and left her half-naked.
Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, 21, who attends Lehman College in the Big Apple was heading to New York from Istanbul with a friend when they were detained during a ten-hour layover at Dubai International Airport on July 14.
But what she thought would be a short stop in the UAE has turned into a months-long nightmare, after airport security was alerted to a brace De Los Santos was wearing with underwiring on it. She told airport officials she had recently had surgery and was mandated to wear the surgical brace around the clock.
She was carted off to a private room and instructed to remove the brace, leaving her semi-naked and feeling 'violated'. She was eventually cleared to go, but since she was unable to get the brace back on herself, she 'gently' touched one of the female customs officer's arm to get her friend to help her.
The female officers accused De Los Santos of 'assaulting and insulting' them, which Santos denied. She was forbidden to travel home, and this week was sentenced to a year behind bars despite paying a AED 10,000 ($2,722) fine.
Judges had ordered De Los Santos to pay the fine on August 24, but instead of being allowed on her way, customs officials appealed the sentence.
She has now undergone a months-long ordeal and had to fork out $50,000 to afford accommodation in the expensive nation along with lawyers costs.
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Anyone else remember this guy ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7265789.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7265789.stm
Andrew Brown had been kept in detention since September
A man jailed in the United Arab Emirates after cannabis weighing less than a sugar grain was found on the sole of his shoe has spoken out.
Andrew Brown, 43, from Smethwick, West Midlands was jailed for four years in December but was pardoned last week by the head of Dubai’s prison system.
Stay out of Muzzlandia.
And communist China as well.
There is more to the story. This cannot be it. Just touching someone’s arm won’t land you in jail for a year, even in Dubai.
We know how rude and entitled today’s generation of young people are. There is little tolerance for that in Asia.
Their country, their rules.
Islam sucks.
you did not even look at the second link I posted, and l could have posted many more,
but it would be pointless.. facts mean nothing to you, and the ‘vax’ is good too
I will not leave the United States until the Biden shit show is over. If you go overseas as a U.S. citizen, you are on your own.
I’ve been to Dubai several times and never had a problem. However,no Westerner should ever mistake Dubai for Amsterdam or San Francisco.
Don’t forget Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Along with North Korea and Myanmar.
Barely 6.5.
I saw her photo
Not Guilty
Not sure about Amsterdam, but at first glance, San Francisco might be mistaken for Caracas, Port au Prince or Addis Ababa.
That sounds odd, because from Istanbul, Dubai is in the opposite direction.
Age 21? Where does she get the money/ A year in the link might do her a bit of good-teachable moment. Our taxpayers will get her out-won’t be cheap. We’re the chumps not her.
I'm with you. I'd never set foot in any Koranistan country regardless of how wealthy and modernized it is. They're all still 7th century barbarians.
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