Woman who reported rape is charged with illegal sex

[stimpee]

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs....5179850%2F1010

ABU DHABI // An 18-year-old Emirati woman has been charged with having sex outside of wedlock after reporting that she was raped by six men, Abu Dhabi’s Criminal Court was told yesterday.

The men, only two of whom were in court yesterday, are charged with raping LH in the back seat of one of the defendant’s vehicles. Both men pleaded not guilty, while L H, who has been taken into custody, also pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.

The woman and one of her male Emirati friends, HA, went for a drive in his vehicle on May 2, prosecutors said. The charges allege that because she had agreed to be in the car, the two had, therefore, met to have sex. According to court records, HA, 19, called five of his friends – four Emiratis and one Iraqi – and invited them to join him.

Prosecutors said that after HA and the woman had sex in an unknown location in Abu Dhabi, the five men met up with them. At that point, the charges say, the men all raped her in HA’s car.

The woman later contacted police and said she had been raped by six men, including HA. It is not known when she reported the attack.

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department Forensic Unit declined to discuss whether the woman had been examined after the incident for evidence of rape.

HA has been charged with rape. The only other defendant in court, an Emirati with the same initials, was also charged with rape. The other four men are being tried in their absence.


The woman has been in custody since she reported the incident. She and the two defendants in court yesterday are being held without bail.

Chief Justice Saeed Abdul Basser twice asked her: “Did you have sex with these men?”

“No,” she replied.

It was unclear whether the judge was referring to consensual sex or rape.

The woman was not represented by a lawyer and no members of her family were in court yesterday.

All of the defendants are older than 18 and are being tried as adults.

[cacophony]

if women didn't want it, they wouldn't be born women. simple!

[Deckard]

Another country that has a lot of growing up to do.

[cured]

I saw the headline and my first thought was this happened in a middle eastern country.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by cacophony

if women didn't want it, they wouldn't be born women. simple!

I'm glad at least ONE woman gets it.....


This may be a bit of a tangent, but what the hell were they thinking setting some of Sex in the City 2 in Abu Dhabi? Did they not get that any of those four women would be imprisoned there if they behaved as they always do?

[chems1919]

Originally Posted by Sean

This may be a bit of a tangent, but what the hell were they thinking setting some of Sex in the City 2 in Abu Dhabi? Did they not get that any of those four women would be imprisoned there if they behaved as they always do?

I was wondering the same thing...that show is ridiculous. I think it's funny that while they're in Abu Dhabi there's a swarm of guys half their age mauling them. Those actresses are fugs.

[cacophony]

roger ebert seems to have noticed the same thing.

[chems1919]

Wow. I thought Ebert was losing his touch, but I have to give him a little credit for that review. His opening statement is hilarious:

Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row.