Court reduces jail term for 18-year-old charged with rape
Bassam Za’za’; 18/4/08
A court has reduced the seven-year imprisonment of a young man who was charged with rape, to three years in jail after his lawyer maintained that “his client didn’t rape the victim”. The Dubai Court of Appeal on Thursday reduced the initial verdict, seven years in jail, to three years. The Dubai Court of First Instance earlier convicted the 18-year-old Emirati, S.K., and 20-year-old Iraqi, W.F., with kidnapping and repeatedly raping the 18-year-old Emirati girl, who reports said had fled her parents’ home. S.K.’s lawyers Jasem and Yasser Al Naqbi, of Excel Advocates and Legal Consultants, sought a reduced term for their client because of his young age.
See: http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10206431.html
Tags: Dubai, Womens Rights