British woman 'arrested in Dubai after reporting rape'

I have to admit the first thing I thought was, why was she so stupid to report it - we all know what happens down there. And before you have a go at me, unless she wants to be a martyr, and fight for women's rights down there, reporting it was never going to end well for her or have any point.

PilkoPumpPants I didn't know that, no, but even so, this doesn't change the fact that the government chose to have her arrested for reporting a rape. And that this is very much exactly what one can expect from Dubai.

Rapists will rape, and chances are you can't prevent them from doing so. What you can do, however, is stay in countries where there is at least some lip service paid to women's human rights, and the authorities will at least pretend to persecute rape. (I do not have a high opinion of Germany or the UK, let alone the US regarding this, but none of these arrest women for having been raped; they at least have the decency to accuse the women of "false rape accusation" before doing so.)

This has happened before.

I saw it on Facebook and thought someone was linking to an old article.

It doesn't matter why she chose to go to Dubai. Fucked up laws or not It doesn't mean she somehow deserves what is happening to her.

How awful for her. Their laws are utterly fucked.

Dp has a couple of family members living out there for work. Expensive flights aside I don't think we'll be visiting any time soon.

I'm with Vestal on this. Of all the places one can go on holiday to why choose this one?

virgin you know the men who raped her are British?

This is one of the situations where I feel tempted to victim-blame. I mean, really, how did she expect to get a rapist arrested in Dubai?

Of course, I do blame the government. But since fighting against governments is hard and has little likelihood of success, I just wish British women (and all other women who don't have to live there) were sensible and wouldn't go to Dubai for holidays.

I can't understand why a country with such a shit human rights record is promoted here as such a popular holiday destination. That poor woman, what an absolute nightmare.

Dubai is and always has been a very male orientated country

One of the reasons I will never visit

Women are property there

It does suck though and I think the woman in question was pretty brave to report rape at all regardless of what country she was in.

No, misogyny doesn't exist. Feminism is stupid and unneeded /end sarcasm.

Ffs. Sorry, OP, I got nothing except bitter cynicism.