Holding Hands, Drinking Wine and Other Ways to Go to Jail in Dubai<br />The British head of a professional soccer team, David Haigh, was ordered jailed for seven months for a tweet<br />that he says could not have been from him — since he was already in jail without a phone.<br />Mr. Haigh, a former managing director of Leeds United Football Club and a partner in Ms. Stirling’s law firm, said he was jailed for 22 months and tortured repeatedly in an attempt to force him to sign a confession,<br />but never managed to see a copy of the charges to which he was supposed to confess.<br />11, 2017<br />DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Scottish electrician named Jamie Harron, visiting Dubai<br />as a tourist, was sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man in a bar.<br />Dubai said that Ninety percent of the population are breaking the law 90 percent of the time<br />and no one does anything against them until they upset the wrong p<br />He could face six months in jail if convicted of making the "obscene gesture." Mr. Mukadam said he had often visited Dubai with his wife and<br />that he liked the city, particularly its variety of halal food, but does not plan to return.<br />Mr. Harron, 27, the Scottish electrician visiting Dubai, was arrested<br />and sentenced to three months in jail for public indecency for allegedly touching a man’s hip as he brushed past him in a crowded bar.
