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The 12-year-old victim says a man molested her as she went out to dispose garbage.
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A view of The Gardens. Photo for illustrative purposes only
Dubai: A family has been left traumatised after their 12-year-old daughter claimed she was molested in front of their building in Dubai.
Police are investigating after a complaint by the girl’s father.
The Indian family lives in The Gardens, Jebel Ali, where a similar incident happened in August.
Speaking about Thursday’s incident, the girl’s father said: “It happened at around 11am as my daughter went out to dispose off the garbage in front of the building...
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UAE laws encourage victims to lodge civil lawsuits to claim emotional, mental, medical and financial compensation.
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Highlighting an important fact, Dahi said most Emirati rape victims tend not to attend court proceedings to avoid embarrassment or confrontation with their rapist.
Dubai: In the hours and days after falling prey to brutal sexual assaults, less than half of female victims actually report the crimes to authorities, federal statistics from the United States suggest.
The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network says that, “54 per cent of rapes and sexual assaults are not reported to the police, according...
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A court dealt leniently with a passenger convicted of smuggling 3.1 kilograms of heroin when it reduced his prison
sentence to a year in jail in view of his young age.
Dubai: A court dealt leniently with a passenger convicted of smuggling 3.1 kilograms of heroin when it reduced his prison sentence to a year in jail in view of his young age [under 21].The Dubai Court of First Instance ordered that the Pakistani defendant, M.A., be jailed for one year and fined him Dh50,000 for possessing the narcotics which he was attempting to smuggle to Bangkok via Dubai International Airport's transit section. Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad ordered that the accused be deported after serving his term.Confession"Yes I am guilty. I brought the heroin from someone in Pakistan and I was...
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18-year-old Emirati has been accused of attempted murder after he allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed his 21-year-old brother following an argument.
"He rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and came and stabbed me"
Dubai: An 18-year-old Emirati has been accused of attempted murder after he allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed his 21-year-old brother following an argument.
The Family and Juveniles Prosecution charged suspect, H.M., with premeditatedly trying to kill A.M. The Dubai Court of First Instance's Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout adjourned the case yesterday, ordering H.M., who failed to appear, to attend...
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A TEN-year-old British girl was snatched by two sex fiends who tried to rape her in
Dubai.
She had gone to look for mice in a sandy play area close to her parents' home in the Arab emirate.One man grabbed her from behind as a second attacker tried to pull down her pants and kissed her mouth.But the brave girl fought back, kicking out and screaming at the evil pair until she broke free and ran off. She was missing from her frantic family for more than two hours before she was found, traumatised and in tears.Bangladeshi Abdul Aziz, 27, has been charged with attempted rape and has appeared in court in Dubai.Aziz is said to have admitted...
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May 10 - A man threw himself off the world's tallest building in Dubai, its developer said, plummeting to his death in the first suicide from Burj Khalifa tower.
The man, believed to be in his twenties and of South Asian background, jumped from the 147th floor of the 828-metre (2,717 feet) skyscraper and landed on a terrace on the 108th floor, local daily The National reported, but those details were not confirmed by the building's developer.
Emaar (EMAR.DU) said it had a recorded an "incident involving a male" at its Burj Khalifa site on Tuesday morning.
"The concerned authorities have confirmed that it was a suicide and we are awaiting the final report," the statement said. It gave no further details on the incident.
The man may have worked at a company inside the 160-storey building, the...
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A website urging former inmates of Bur Dubai Police Station to share their experiences has been launched by the family of a British tourist who died in custody.The family of Lee Brown, who was found dead in his cell on April 12, have set up the online portal in a bid to gather
testimonies from anyone held at the detention centre.“We can’t begin to express the effect that Lee’s shocking death has had and the drive that we now have to ensure that the families of others do not have to endure some of the heartache and pain that we have lived through,” his family said in a statement.Brown’s mother Doris, brother Steve and sister-in-law Susanne are...
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"...the ambulance arrived thirty-five minutes after the call had been made. It was too late; the boy had already lost his life..."Last week one of our readers neighbor’s eleven-month old crawler choked on a clove of garlic that he picked up from the kitchen floor as his mother was busy cooking. The first-aid trained mum first dialed for an ambulance and then thumped the boy as she tried her best to expel the garlic from his windpipe. Unfortunately, the ambulance arrived thirty-five minutes after the call had been made. It was too late; the boy had already lost his life.Another lady had to experience a similar loss due to the inefficiency of medical...
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Lieutenant Colonel Ali Ahmed Abdalla Ghanin, present to Xpress the new facilities in the Bur Dubai Police Station.
Dubai: A European who briefly shared a prison cell with Lee Bradley Brown told XPRESS how the visiting Briton begged him for help just days before he died in police custody.The man described Brown's condition as "terrible" but clarified he did not see him being beaten, contradicting British media reports that Brown was tortured by the police."I saw him bleeding. He had bruises on his face, shoulder and arms when he asked me for help," said the man who was released from Bur Dubai...
