British teenager Marcus Fakana is facing a year in Dubai’s notorious Al Awir prison, where inmates have reported ‘torturous’ and ‘hellish’ conditions, after he had sex with a girl he met ...

A 21-year-old woman from Leeds locked up in a Dubai prison on drugs charges has said she’s not been able to shower for a ...

A BRIT woman has been rotting inside a Dubai hellhole prison without a shower for a month after being arrested on alleged drug charges. Cops arrested Isabella Daggett, 21, just five weeks after ...

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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered the release of ...

Fakana and his lawyers are now deciding whether to appeal his one-year sentence in Dubai Central Prison, a jail with a poor record for human rights abuses and torture — although there’s a ...

Languages: English. A British 18-year-old was sentenced to one year in a Dubai prison on Wednesday after he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl. Marcus Fakana, from London, was ...

The family of an 18-year-old British boy who was sentenced to a year in a Dubai prison for consensual sex with a 17-year-old girl is criticizing the UK government for failing to intervene ...

Two Ohio brothers, one an Air Force veteran, were sentenced to spend four months in a Dubai prison after an incident involving drinking on a yacht in June, a crime in the United Arab Emirates.

In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai prison, where inmates talk of being subjected to torturous conditions. British ...