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United Arab Emirates: Stone Age

Written byHaitham Sabbah
Posted 17 November 2005 10:30 GMT

secretdubai describe Sharjah as the “Stone Age” emirate. Why? Two women were abducted and raped by fake taxi drivers and complain to police. What did Sharjah police do? Charge the women with being “in privacy with a man.”

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