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Dubai Court Sentences Woman To Life For Selling A Joint

A court in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, has sentenced a young woman to life in prison for selling a joint to an undercover officer and possessing 16 more weighing a total of 19 grams. According to the UAE news site 7 Days, the unnamed Tanzanian citizen in her 20s was caught after police received a tip she was running a "drug den" in the Diera area of Dubai.

An Emirati police officer told the Dubai Court of First Instance that they had been tipped in December that the woman was selling drugs from her apartment. "Our sources informed us that she used her flat in Deira area of Dubai as a drugs den and she was trading with customers there," the Emirati officer said. "We sent an undercover policeman to her flat and he bought a cigarette for dhs30. She was possessing many cigarettes full with marijuana and she confessed to us that she used to sell them for dhs30 each."

That converts to about $8.10. At the same per joint rate, the young woman's entire stash would be worth less than $130.

The woman also tested positive for unspecified drugs. That alone is enough to get you imprisoned in the UAE, which has snared not only its own citizens but also unwary travelers passing through Dubai International Airport, who with depressing regularity receive four-year prison sentences for a positive drug test or possession of even the tiniest detectable traces of drugs.

The young woman had denied all charges. Her lawyer has vowed to appeal, but barring a successful appeal or pardon, she would not be eligible to be released and deported for at least 25 years.

Dubai court officials were fine with that. "The law orders us to sentence anyone trading with any amount of drugs to life in jail. Even if the amount is a few grams, it's still trading," one told 7 News. "This verdict is sending out a clear message to anyone trading with drugs that this business can ruin your life."

Or, more accurately, the Dubai courts can.


Middle East: Dubai Court Sentences Woman to Life for Selling a Joint | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

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Sso

this is the ultimate lesson in that punishment doesnt deter.

there that woman is, selling weed for almost nothing, possibly facing life in jail and shes selling to a complete stranger. at that price?

brave or idiotic woman, but reason i dont mention the laws, is that dubai and alike countries are absolutely insane to begin with..

Pesci

What can you say?

Just look at how this country treats women.

Says it all

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motha-fuck-a dubai! uae is nothing but oil-rich sheiks with inflated egos, trying to take over the rest of the civilized world! May the sands of a thousand deserts beat at their backsides for a thousand years, and may their empire crumble before their very eyes! peace

and i am arabic...so i am just really hating on my own peeps!

Pesci

These are also the same countries that up until 50 years ago was nothing but tribes and deserts.
They havent invented a thing

The only thing they are doing is getting rich off selling oil

So its a small group of people getting rich off selling oil while the rest languish in poverty, atleast in some countries.
Others, citizens get paid by the govt

However, they arent diversifying at all
No education
No manufacturing

When the oil runs out, the real wars start

Idiots man

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bioswizard

Well said!!

cheech wizard

Not really true, and racist. ARAB WORLD | The Arab contribution to civilisation
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We used to have a significant manufacturing base, but not anymore. We've been fortunate that our founding fathers had the "foresight" to separate the church from state. However, it wasn't really foresight at all. It was the result of European religious intolerance, and state sponsored religions. I've had the opportunity to talk to some UAE citizens, and have found them to be just people.

swordfish

Someone needs to fly some airplanes into the buildings that house the public officials that make these decisions and take all their first borns.

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Sso

sure ive met a few arabs, a few muslims.

fine folk. as long as you dont mention religion and or women rights.

remember one guy, allright little fellah, till we happened to talk about his wife.

he had about the same views of his wife as most folks here have about there dogs.

couldnt understand how a woman from here could marry such a prick. true love or dumb and desperate? never saw her. dunno. but i didnt talk to him much after that (worked at the same place)