Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai

• abfarid@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why would you want to visit Dubai though. It’s literally just where people show off their wealth

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Decriminalized in 2020. How progressive.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are multiple stories of women being raped and then charged with having premarital sex, as if they had a say in the matter. Here’s one example. The fact that’s it’s happened enough for an organization to be created to deal with it sounds fairly damning from where I stand. I can only assume those 15 million people don’t find that to be reason enough to stay away.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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