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Notable among the other tales of wickedness are the continuing Twitter trial, the man who's been held since February 19th for Tweets that cursed Dubai Chief of Police, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim. Claiming he's being held in solitary confinement, coerced and pressured, the man lodged a special plea to have the police chief attend the court and give a statement. The plea was denied and judgement in the case will be issued on April 1st. Someone's got a sense of humour.
Another court report in today's packed schedule deals with the worker and housemaid whose 'love flowered after they met on Facebook' and who are consequently being charged with having consensual sex out of wedlock. This is something taken seriously here in the UAE and they're being jailed for two months and then deported. Apparently the couple chatted for two weeks on Facebook and then fell in love, the consummation of this passion taking place at the housemaid's sponsor's villa and, although Gulf News doesn't mention it, presumably their subsequent interruption by a scandalised sponsor wondering what all the noise was.
Give people technology and they find all sorts of interesting and different ways to use it, no?
2 comments:
Interesting that the defendant in the Twitter case issued more or less the same Bart Simpson defence. (I didn't do it. No one saw me do it. You can't prove anything.)Unfortunately for him, everyone had. He then had to claim that he wasn't actually insulting the guy with the wasta, but his entourage instead. I still remember Bill Clinton doing this too. Makes you long for the days of Dr. Johnson, who, when challenged as to how he'd made one whopper of a mistake in his dictionary, replied, 'Ignorance madam.'
Thank you! I hear Vicky in the back of my mind almost every day while perusing GN.
And it does make for more interesting reading than the endless line-up of workshops, grip-n-grins, and bold announcements of a glorious future, doesn't it?
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