[nytimes] In Rape Case, a French Youth Takes On Dubai

sheesh...


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 31 — Alexandre Robert, a French 15-year-old, was having a fine summer in this tourist paradise on the Persian Gulf. It was Bastille Day and he and a classmate had escaped the July heat at the beach for an air-conditioned arcade.

Just after sunset, Alex says he was rushing to meet his father for dinner when he bumped into an acquaintance, a 17-year-old native-born student at the American school, who said he and his cousin could drop Alex off at home.

There were, in fact, three Emirati men in the car, including a pair of former convicts ages 35 and 18, according to Alex. He says they drove him past his house and into a dark patch of desert, between a row of new villas and a power plant, took away his cellphone, threatened him with a knife and a club, and told him they would kill his family if he ever reported them...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/w...851fe25b&ex=1351656000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

it's pretty troubling that he had to flee the country for fear of being thrown in jail for "being" a homosexual . not to mention the fact that one of the men that raped him is HIV positive .