The star’s guard was sentenced to a year for allegedly “slapping” a male fan. Critics warn people who go do not know its justice system’s danger.
The operator of a site called Detained in Dubai says Western tourists often run afoul of the bizarre judicial system which can trap them there for months or years.
Whitfield is just one in a long line of Westerners who’ve found themselves facing a nightmare of red tape, arrests and sometimes lengthy detention for what appear to be largely spurious claims.R&B singer Trey Songz’s bodyguard Cornell Whitfield is the latest Western tourist to run afoul of the bizarre judicial system in Dubai.since 2008 when she first helped a friend who was arrested in Dubai, has aided what she says has been “thousands” of tourists arrested on flimsy pretenses there.
“So if I’m the one who takes a complaint to the police station, I’m probably going to win that criminal case. Visitors think Dubai is this modern, luxurious place and they assume the justice system is like the West’s when it most definitely is not.”Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos was freed after a “hellish” five months in Dubai after she was detained for touching a security guard’s arm at the airport in July.
Whitfield contacted Stirling when he returned to Dubai recently, completely unaware that he was in legal hot water stemming from an incident that took place in March in front of the Five Palm Jumeirah hotel.
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