Qatar hands suspended sentence to Dutch rape complaint woman - Yahoo7

 

Doha (AFP) - A Doha court on Monday convicted a Dutch woman of adultery and handed her a one-year suspended sentence after she reported being raped while on holiday in Qatar.

 

The 22-year-old woman, known only as Laura and who was not in court, was also fined 3,000 Qatari riyals ($800/710 euros) and will be deported once she pays the fine, court officials said.

 

She had denied the charge against her.

 

The male defendant, said by a court official to be Syrian and named as Omar Abdullah al-Hasan, was sentenced to 100 lashes for the illicit sex and 40 lashes for consuming alcohol.

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Just wow. Life is just too complicated to even imagine getting caught up in this drama.

 

140 lashes for the man and nothing for her?

I couldn't imagine living in some of these countries that still practice ancient medieval laws based on a religion. Women simply do not have many rights and privileges in most Middle Eastern nations, mainly because men wrote the laws and rules centuries ago.

More curious about why a Dutch woman was on holiday in Qatar ? Am I the only one that sees that as odd ?

 

After all, she had St Marteen available....

More curious about why a Dutch woman was on holiday in Qatar ? Am I the only one that sees that as odd ?

 

After all, she had St Marteen available....

 

I kind of agree with you, especially being a female, and I assume that she was alone? (I didn't read the whole article).

 

But I hear from many people that a trip to a place like the UAE is highly recommended. BUT, one of those people is a former boss of mine and he said rag he went to the UAE about 4 years ago and was taking photos of all of the nice new buildings. One day he came back to his hotel room and it was ransacked, nothing was missing except his memory card out of his camera.

 

But going to Qatar? Even I would have reservations about going there unless I had to. No human rights at all! Aren't that World Cup stadiums basically being built of off slave labor?

 

Look at the UK/Russia soccer violence in France over the weekend, can you imagine soccer hooligans in Qatar?

With not knowing the full story, but now having read some of the articles. I step on this topic ever so lightly as its a very sensitive subject. But, was she drugged? Was she at a bar and started getting friendly with a guy and one thing led to another? BUT, it doesn't seem like she/they were caught and she came up with the being drugged/raped story, as all indications is she went to the police to report the rape.

 

I guess if you visit one of these counties and you have trouble, wait until you leave the country before you make a complaint.

 

I bring this up again as its going to be very interesting with them hosting the World Cup in 2022, alcohol is permitted in hotels that are like 3-5 stars and a few other places for non-residents, and I think they are going to lift the restrictions for the WC. That would be one of the last places that I would want to be as a rowdie soccer fan.

I kind of agree with you, especially being a female, and I assume that she was alone? (I didn't read the whole article).

 

But I hear from many people that a trip to a place like the UAE is highly recommended. BUT, one of those people is a former boss of mine and he said rag he went to the UAE about 4 years ago and was taking photos of all of the nice new buildings. One day he came back to his hotel room and it was ransacked, nothing was missing except his memory card out of his camera.

 

But going to Qatar? Even I would have reservations about going there unless I had to. No human rights at all! Aren't that World Cup stadiums basically being built of off slave labor?

 

Look at the UK/Russia soccer violence in France over the weekend, can you imagine soccer hooligans in Qatar?

 

With Al Gore's internet....I have no need to travel to any of those countries to see anything. My reasons to do so in the past involved me also being armed.

 

I have heard similar stories about Americans having difficulty with their rooms in some of these countries.

 

The thing to remember is that they really don't need our money and generally speaking, they really do not like Westerners....given that, I don't really want to go see anything in their third world pits...they can keep it and all that come with it.

 

Even though I have never been to Qatar, I have been to St Marteen....I can tell you that there is no comparison, none whatsoever...

Any woman who goes on vacation in a country where women are not respected is just asking for trouble.

Any woman who goes on vacation in a country where women are not respected is just asking for trouble.

 

When you opinion is wanted, Mr. Cat will ask for it...now get back to cooking.:wave:

When you opinion is wanted, Mr. Cat will ask for it...now get back to cooking.:wave:

 

Now you know it doesn't work that way! :angrybird8:

When you opinion is wanted, Mr. Cat will ask for it...now get back to cooking.:wave:

 

LOL

Now you know it doesn't work that way! :angrybird8:

 

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Any woman who goes on vacation on a golf course, where women are not respected is just asking for trouble.

 

Fixed that for you....:thumb:

Any woman who goes on vacation in a country where women are not respected is just asking for trouble.

 

Why any woman would EVER go to a Middle Eastern country is beyond me. I cannot imagine venturing into a country that looks at me as property. I have absolutely no interest in going to a ME country but if I was a woman, not a chance I would even consider it.

Why any woman would EVER go to a Middle Eastern country is beyond me. I cannot imagine venturing into a country that looks at me as property. I have absolutely no interest in going to a ME country but if I was a woman, not a chance I would even consider it.

 

Absolutely.