Rape victim was ‘convicted of consensual sex in another case’ - Womens Rights/Dubai
Bassam Za’za’; 4/4/08
The lawyer of a suspect, serving seven years in jail for raping a girl, has said the victim had earlier been convicted of having consensual sex in another case, heard a court. The 18-year-old Emirati suspect, S.K., and 20-year-old Iraqi, W.F., were convicted of kidnapping and repeatedly raping the 18-year-old Emirati girl, who reports said had fled her parents’ home. S.K.’s lawyers Jassem and Yasser Al Naqbi, of Excel Advocates and Legal Consultants, revealed for the first time in the course of this case before the court of appeal that the girl had been earlier convicted for “consensual sex”.
See: http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10202887.html