Women Jailed For Kissing
Posted on September 2, 2008
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It was reported this weekend that a Lebanese woman and her female Bulgarian companion have been jailed for a month for kissing and fondling each other and engaging in “indecent acts”on a public beach in Dubai. The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the one-month jail sentence handed down by a lower court to the women, a 30-year-old Lebanese national and a 36-year-old Bulgarian who both pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors had charged the women with kissing, groping each other and “indecent acts in public,” the 7Day paper said, adding that this was the first case of its kind in the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven states including Dubai.
According to police reports, the two women were seen being intimate with each other on Al-Mamzar public beach between Sharjah and Dubai in April.
They will be deported after serving their sentences.
Even more disturbing is that earlier this year two women here in America, “Land of the Free” were asked to stop kissing at a Seattle baseball game or be thrown out.
