{"id":260157,"date":"2017-10-12T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=260157"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T20:32:51","slug":"british-man-could-still-face-dubai-jail-for-touching-mans-hip-despite-allegations-being-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/british-man-could-still-face-dubai-jail-for-touching-mans-hip-despite-allegations-being-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"British man could still face Dubai jail for \u2018touching man\u2019s hip\u2019 despite allegations being dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Boycott Dubai!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A British man facing three years in jail over alleged public indecency while at a nightclub in Dubai is still being prosecuted under \u2018typical laws\u2019- despite the claimant dropping the allegations.<\/p>\n

Jamie Harron, 27, faces up to three years imprisonment for allegedly touching Jordanian businessman Emad Tabaza’s hip while at the Rock Bottom Bar on July 15.<\/p>\n

Harron, an electrician from Scotland, will face trial despite allegations against him being dropped by the claimant.<\/p>\n

According to a spokesman for the technology firm Neumann & Esser, where Tabaza is managing director, the complainant decided to withdraw the allegations despite the \u201charassment,\u201d but \u201claws in the country\u201d mean the proceedings do not automatically come to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason why the suspect did not attend the hearing, as reported by the media, and should now be imprisoned is not known by us.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore – if security had intervened correctly or the suspect had not behaved incorrectly – this complaint would never have arisen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harron, who has already been handed a 30-day jail sentence for public drinking and making a rude gesture, has lost his job because of the case and has spent over \u00a332,000 in expenses and legal fees trying to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n

According to the campaign organization Detained in Dubai (DiD), the Scot admitted to public drunkenness but denied allegations of having made a rude gesture or public indecency.<\/p>\n

Following his arrest in July, Harron was jailed for five days before being released on bail and having his passport confiscated.<\/p>\n

He released a voice clip, saying:\u00a0\u201cMy lawyers have put an objection in against my 30-day prison sentence issued in my absentia that me and my lawyer didn’t even know about in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it can be sorted out, but I didn’t think it would have already gone on so long in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve lost my job, I’m in debt now and I may be going to prison. All this for a two-day stopover. It’s just unbelievable, I’m still in shock that it’s actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: \u201cWe have been in contact with a British man following his arrest in Dubai in July.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are providing consular assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The public indecency case will be heard in court on October 22.<\/p>\n

Despite receiving a one-month jail term, Harron is not currently in custody.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/406499-dubai-arrested-jamie-harron\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Boycott Dubai!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":287416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}