Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai

• abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Women in UAE have always been allowed to drive. It was made legal in 2018 in Saudi Arabia, which is a different country.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are you sure they’re different countries?

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    • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can Google it if you don’t trust me.

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How can i trust google after all they’ve done

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• gazter@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t think that Dubai, or anywhere in the UAE, ever had a ban on women driving.

  Are you thinking of Saudi Arabia? Different country.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I still wouldnt go there if you like not being in prison.

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  • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As a foreigner/tourist you have practically 0 chances of going to prison, unless you do something really stupid.

    Source: Been to Dubai many times.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thats the dumbest bullshit i have ever read on here. If you havent seen or heard anything fucked up, in or about Dubai, thats because you havent looked.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai

      Homosexuality is illegal. The death penalty is one of the punishments for homosexuality. Kissing in some public places is illegal and can result in deportation.

      These are just the first two sentences in the “Dubai Law” section, it just keeps going along similar fucked up lines tho.

      Sharing a hotel room with the opposite sex is prohibited under Dubai’s law unless married or closely related. There is to be no display of public affection.

      And this doesnt even start talking about slave labour, still horrible womens rights, human trafficing, censorship, political assassinations, etc.

      Seriously, i wouldnt go to Dubai if you paid me for it and neither should amyone that values their own safety and general human rights.

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      • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        As I said, respect the local laws and customs and nothing will happen to you. As proven by about 15 million annual tourists from all over the world.

        You obviously don’t have to visit if you disagree with the local customs, but to say that going there has any measurable chances of getting arrested is incorrect.

        And regarding the law about sharing a room by a (heterosexual) premarital couple, it has been decriminalized in 2020, and rarely applied to foreigners in the first place.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Apparently China is the same ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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      • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why wouldn’t it be? Any country that wants to attract tourists is going to be lenient with them.

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• cheesorist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  that’s still not Dubai, which happens to be a city

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