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Driver in Dubai offers free ride to woman, rapes her inside car
Published: June 11, 2022 10:28
Ali Al Shouk, Senior Reporter, Gulf News
Al Awir Central Jail in Dubai. A Dubai-based driver has been sentenced to life in jail for raping a woman.
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Dubai: A Dubai-based driver has been sentenced to life in jail for raping a woman after offering her a free ride from Dubai to Al Ain.
The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that the woman was trying to reach Al Ain early in the morning and was looking for transportation, when the defendant stopped by and offered her a free ride. The woman agreed and stepped inside the car. Thereafter, the driver parked the vehicle on the side road and sought sexual favours from the woman. When she refused, he locked the doors of the vehicle and raped her.
“I was on the main road, looking for a ride to Al Ain city. The defendant stopped the car and offered me a ride. After driving for a few kilometres, he parked on the side road and rape me,” the woman said on record. “I begged him to stop the attack, but he had locked the doors and I couldn’t escape.”
Company vehicle used in crime
Later, when she asked the driver for some water, he opened the doors and that was when she managed to escape. She stop another vehicle on the way and asked for help, the victim said.
“The driver of the second vehicle helped me report the incident to police,” she added.
A policeman with Dubai Police said that following a complaint from the woman, a team of officers identified the defendant’s car. The defendant was employed with a company and used the company’s vehicle to commit the crime. “He was arrested and he admitted to his crime,” said the policeman on record.
The defendant was sentenced to life in jail, to be followed by deportation.
Kuwait to expel 10 women over immorality
Doorkeeper accused of covering up also faces deportation
Published: June 14, 2022 15:30
Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent, Gulf News
Cairo: Ten expatriate women and a male doorkeeper will be deported from Kuwait after they were caught involved in immoral acts, a local newspaper has said.
The vice squad arrested the women from different nationalities and an Asian keeper of a building covering them up during a raid in Hawalli governorate, Al Anba added, quoting the ministry said. The offenders will be deported.
Earlier this week, Al Anba reported that instructions had been issued to the Kuwaiti Criminal Security Sector to firmly deal with prostitution offences and deport any expatriate doorman of a building where immoral acts are caught without the guard having earlier reported them to authorities.
Foreigners make up nearly 3.4 million of Kuwait’s overall population of 4.6 million.
Kuwaiti police have recently mounted a security clampdown on illegal expatriates as part of efforts to expose violators of the country’s residency and labour laws.
Around 654 violators have been rounded up in in the week-long campaigns, Al Anba reported.
The same paper said last month that Kuwaiti authorities are likely to impose penalties on sponsors of foreigners who came to the country on visit visas and have not left in violation of rules. The penalties could include a two-year ban on those sponsors for obtaining any sponsorship visas.
Hawalli Governate, Kuwait
Tunisia will abandon Islam as its state religion in new draft constitution
By WALTER FINCH FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:52 EDT, 21 June 2022
Tunisian President Kais Saied confirmed Tuesday that a draft constitution to be put to a referendum on July 25 will not enshrine Islam as the 'religion of the state'.
The move is part of his efforts to reform the political system in Tunisia which has been accused of being corrupt and chaotic, but it is also seen as a manoeuvre to sideline rival Islamist parties.
'The next constitution of Tunisia won't mention a state with Islam as its religion, but of belonging to an umma (community) which has Islam as its religion,' he told journalists at Tunis airport.
'The umma and the state are two different things.'
Saied took delivery of the draft text on Monday, a key step in his drive to overhaul the Tunisian state after he sacked the government and seized far-reaching powers to rule by decree last July in moves opponents called a coup.
Sadeq Belaid, the legal expert who headed the drafting committee, had told AFP in an interview this month that he would remove all reference to Islam from the new document in a challenge to Islamist parties.
Saied was speaking to the press at Tunis-Carthage International Airport as he bidded farewell to
the prospective Hajj pilgrims before their departure to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage
His comments, partly referring to Saied's nemesis Ennahdha, an Islamist-inspired party which has dominated Tunisian politics since 2011, sparked a heated national debate.
The first article of Tunisia's 2014 constitution - and its 1959 predecessor - defined the North African country as 'a free, independent and sovereign state. Islam is its religion and Arabic is its language'.
The 2014 document was the product of a hard-won compromise between Ennahdha and its secular rivals three years after the revolt that overthrew dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The new text, produced through a 'national dialogue' excluding opposition forces and boycotted by the powerful UGTT trades union confederation, is meant to be approved by Saied by the end of June before being put to voters on July 25.
That is a year after the former constitutional law professor sacked the government, later consolidating his power grab by dissolving parliament and seizing control of the judiciary.
Many protesters are supporters of the Islamist party Ennahda, which dominates Tunisian politics but is at risk of being sidelined by the new constitution. Others simply protested Saied's abrogation of powers which were reminiscent of deposed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
His moves have been welcomed by some Tunisians tired of the corrupt and often chaotic post-revolutionary system, but others have warned he is returning the country to autocracy.
There is more on this story at Daily Mail.
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