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Right now, there is a young Norwegian woman imprisoned in Dubai. She's been charged with consumption of alcohol without a license and for having sex outside the marriage.

So what's her story? She was on a work trip and was out partying with her colleagues. She woke up from being raped in a hotel room, but managed to escape. She ran to the reception and told them to call the police. The police came and put her in prison. Being Norwegian, the thought she could get imprisoned for reporting her getting raped never occurred to her.

This happened about four months ago and she's still there. She just got her sentence, one year and four months.

Edit :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marte_Dalelv_rape_incident

Obviously from a European/Western perspective it's absolute bull**** and there's barely any reasoning in that sentence, let alone justice.

However- this next comment might cut a bit close to the whole "can any blame be apportioned to the victim" thing because it's down that line of reasoning-but the fact that she was ignorant of the laws in a very different country from her own obviously worked against her. I'm not saying she should be expected to study Sharia Law extensively before her trip, but there are certain aspects of societies like these which I would expect to be almost common knowledge by now, namely their backward stance on rape and women's rights which obviously go hand in hand with deep rooted misogyny and gender bias.

Hopefully justice is done on her appeal, but (from the little of what I've seen on the case) it seems the best she can hope for is to go home after a few months in prison, rather than actually get the perpetrator/(s)? imprisoned themselves. Hardly justice.

Islamic ideology in promoting rape shocker.

more reason for me to never travel abroad lol. that sucks and is unfair.


sharia law, what a joke

Not all Muslims are the same of course, it's Islam the ideology that promotes hatred and intolerance etc.

There are peaceful, tolerant Muslims but they aren't following the religion correctly.

This surah is talking about types of women a Muslim man is allowed to have sex with.

"Those whom your right hands possess” is referring to women captured in battle, sex slaves.

Lets not turn this rape into a murder.

That is so awful. Dealing with being raped is possibly one of the hardest and most ****ed-up things ever, not to mention being thrown in jail for it. She's my age, too... scary and sad :(

Indeed, Dubai is off my list of potential holiday destinations.

Based on this, sharia law seems a mockery of justice.

Yes :( Makes me wish there was more one could do for her. Hopefully the embassy or foreign affairs can get a hold of her and bring her home.

Another copy & paste from the other thread follows :

If anyone wants to try and help out Marte Deborah Dalelv who has been imprisoned in Dubai due to her own rape, here are some suggestions to some simple things you can do.

• There's an online petition for her release here : Release Marte Deborah Dalelv
  
• There's a facebook page you can "like" here : https://www.facebook.com/releasemarte
  
• There's also an open facebook group one can join. This group has gotten some attention in Norwegian media : https://www.facebook.com/groups/rele...deborahdalelv/
  
• You can put some pressure on Dubai, f.ex tell them you would not go on vacation to a country that imprisons victims of crimes. Their fb page which has a post mentioning Marte can be found here : https://www.facebook.com/DubaiCity1

Finally, Marte was also fired by her employer, The One Planet, for her behaviour.

• Link to a scan of the letter from her employer

Considering this happened on her business trip, I am horrified that they would not support her like helping her out with legal fees. If I travel abroad on a business trip, I am well insured and assume my employer would help me out should I become the victim of a crime, as any employer should. I sent an email to them. If you want to complain to them, their facebook page is here (though it may be down at the moment) and their twitter is here. You can also send an email to them at the following adress : theone@theone.com

If you want to send them something, but don't know what to write, you can copy and paste this text which was written by Norwegian blogger Gunnar Tjomlid.

Source for the letter >> THE One – give ‘em hell! | SAKSYNT

edit :

I made a thread dedicated to the Marte Deborah Dalelv rape incident -> http://www.musicbanter.com/current-e...-incident.html

Feel free to reply in there!

**** Dubai.