The summer romance of Fakana from the London district of Tottenham with another Londoner, who is now also eighteen, took place this September. After the girl’s family returned home from vacation, her mother discovered the couple’s photos and messages and reported Fakana to the Dubai Police. She detained him in the hotel, recapitulates the events of the BBC.
“I’m not sure if they should enforce this law to such an extent. Consensual sex between two people – tourists who were only supposed to be there for a short time – does not require a year in prison, tearing apart the family and destroying the young life of an 18-year-old person,” Radha Stirling, the founder of the organization Detained in Dubai, commented on the verdict.
According to that, the entire case should also have been dealt with as a misdemeanor, but this did not happen due to “mistakes by the prosecutor’s office in the initial stages of the case”. “His family sent a request to the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to spare Marcus for having sex with a British citizen,” added Stirling.
After the vacation, the young man’s parents had to leave their son alone in Dubai and return to their jobs. Mother works as a cleaner and father works in a warehouse. If the appeal does not change anything, their son would return to them only after serving a one-year sentence behind bars.
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