Posted on 06/12/2016 2:30:03 PM PDT by AndyJackson
The 22-year-old says she was drugged at Doha hotel and realised she had been raped when she woke up in unfamiliar apartment
[photo and caption] The Dutch woman was arrested in March on suspicion of adultery after going to police, says her lawyer.
A Dutch woman arrested in Qatar on suspicion of adultery after reporting she had been raped is to appear in court on Monday.
The 22-year-old says she was drugged in a hotel in Doha, and realised she had been raped when she woke up in an unfamiliar apartment.
“She was arrested in March on suspicion of adultery, which means having sex outside marriage,” her lawyer, Brian Lokollo, told Dutch radio NOS-Radio 1.
The alleged rapist is also being held, but says the sex was consensual. The Dutch foreign ministry said the woman had been arrested but had yet to be charged.
It said in a statement: “We have provided assistance to her since the first day of detention. For the sake of the defendant’s case we will not make further comments at this point.”
The case came to light after the woman’s mother spoke to Dutch media. It is understood that her daughter had not wanted the case to be made public.
The 22-year-old, who was on holiday, had gone dancing at a hotel where alcohol was allowed. “But when she returned to the table after the first sip of her drink … she felt very unwell”. She believed she had been drugged, Lokollo said.
Her next memory was waking up in an unfamiliar apartment where she “realised to her great horror that she had been raped”, he added.
The man was also arrested, but denies raping her and alleges that she had even asked for money.
“She completely denies these accusations,” Lokollo said.
It is an offence to drink alcohol or be drunk in public in Qatar, although alcohol is allowed at certain hotels and non-Muslim immigrants can obtain a permit for purchasing alcohol.
Since the case has come to light, hundreds of people on Twitter have called for the woman’s release.
In 2013, a 24-year-old Norwegian woman who brought a rape complaint against her boss was jailed for 16 months in the neighbouring United Arab Emirates for so-called indecent behaviour, perjury and alcohol consumption. She was later pardoned and allowed to return to Norway.
Any woman from a Western country who goes to a muslim country and gets treated by sharia law deserves what happens to her.
It is like a solo hiker who falls off a cliff.
I have no sympathy.
She was not wise. Muslim’s are known for being Muslim.
So, how do they handle the duel?
Raping non-Muslims apparently doesn’t count as adultery.
Just as the definition of “terrorism” used by the OIC apparently doesn’t include committing violence against non-Muslims.
Isn’t that something my local school district takes $$ from Qatar and they indoctrinate Kinder age kids with Arabic Language & CULTURE too!
It’s an adultery charge for a woman
It’s a pat on the back and an “’atta Boy, way to go,” for the savage Muslim drugging rapist. Hes just doing his muslim guy thing.
Who is this liberal girl to question what a Muslim did to her?
Doesn’t she realize Muslims are the official Alpha predator minority group? You get everything you want from liberals when you are the Alpha.
Went to Qatar voluntarily?, yep, she's guilty, give her a couple of years in the joint, and she won't do this a second time.
not for nothing, but I must opine. It is tiring to read an article where the first two sentences explain the body of the message, and then the writer goes straight ahead and pens almost the exact same sentences all over again. They may as well sign their name twice because they are repititious idiots.
that assinine Brit newspaper the Daily Mail does it all the time. Perhaps the Postman does ring twice over there.
For vacation WHAT TYPE of Norweigian goes to QATAR..?
Cuz ya know?
THERE IS A TYPE THAT DOES THAT.
Maybe they are still following the old dictum that ‘who-what-where-when-why’ should always be in the lead paragraph...
I will always remember the fear in a Colombian woman’s voice when she told me what happened to her in Dubai on a stopover there a day or two prior. She was staying in a starred hotel but was woken at 3 in the morning by a male employee coming into her room. She was so frightened about his intent that she was relieved when he asked her to give him several hundreds dollars to leave. When she reported it to the management, they didn’t really believe her.
She has no one to blame but herself......stupid.
1. What female goes to Qatar on holiday?
2. The 22-year-old, who was on holiday, had gone dancing at a hotel where alcohol was allowed. “But when she returned to the table after the first sip of her drink … she felt very unwell”. She believed she had been drugged.
She was not staying at a hotel where alcohol/dancing was allowed? A European, on holiday, not staying at a hotel with booze?
3. One sip...she felt unwell? And then she woke up in an unfamiliar room?
An unpleasant story, made more so by Islam’s attitude toward women, but there’s a fundamental lack of judgment here also. I don’t go into bad neighborhoods with a wad of bills in my pocket.
Someone does something evil to her, and she’s to blame.
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
No she isn’t, truth remains truth because it is God who says what it is, not you (or even I) and certainly not Muslims.
Being unwise doesn’t make her assailants any less guilty in absolute fact.
Friends don’t let friends get mixed up in Islam.
If I decide to take my rural redneck arse to the Chicago south side for some clubbing and get killed where their be any sympathy? Oh the killer is guilty for sure but it does make me any less stupid.
As opposed to a hiker who falls off a cliff in front of companions or one who is roped to his companions and pulls them all off the mountain?
There should be. And outrage as well. Walking on public streets in a city should not be a death sentence. We all pay for it and the attitude that well, the victim of crime was stupid, is, well, the cause of the problem in the first place.
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