Let no one ever say that Dubai is not well-endowed.

A Norwegian woman recently received a 16-month prison sentence in Dubai. Her crime?

Ms Dalelv says she had been on a night out with colleagues on 6 March when the rape took place.

She reported it to the police, who proceeded to confiscate her passport and seize her money. She was charged four days later on three counts, including having sex outside marriage.

Her alleged attacker, she said, received a 13-month sentence for extra-marital sex and alcohol consumption.

(Emphasis added.) I’ll just let that sink in.

It appears both the woman and the rapist were convicted of the same offense, and she got the longer sentence.

The sentence for having sex outside of marriage, a/k/a being a rape survivor, is worse than the one-month sentence given to the married Pakistani couple that had sex in their car in Dubai—and who successfully appealed the conviction and sentence.

It is also worse than the one-month sentence given to the British couple who violated Dubai’s “decency laws” by kissing each other on the mouth in public. They lost their appeal. Continue reading →