MEN JAILED FOR THREE YEARS FOR GAY SEX
Two men, one from the Seychelles and the other from Britain, have been jailed for three years for having drunken gay sex in public in Dubai.
The men were named only as P.A., a 28-year-old from Britain, and M.B., a 40-year-old from the Seychelles, in a report by The National.
It said that they had admitted to having sex next to a petrol station near Al Garhoud Bridge in February last year after a drunken birthday party.
A man, who was parked nearby, saw the men and reported them to the authorities.
The police arrived, gave chase and caught the men.
They will serve three years in jail, after which they will be deported to their respective home countries.
In a separate case, two Bangladeshi men who were arrested for having consensual sex in a public toilet at a bus station earlier this month, have received lighter sentences.
H.T., a worker, and S.S., a clerk, confessed to the crime after they were caught by two cleaners, reported GulfNews. H.T. was also charged for consuming alcohol in public.
The 37-year-old men were sentenced to six months in jail for the sex act, with H.T. receiving an additional month for drinking.
They will also be deported after serving their sentences.
Homosexuality is illegal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which includes the emirates of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras al-Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain, Ajman, Fujairah and Sharjah.
Punishment includes imprisonment, fines, deportation, and the death penalty as well as hormone treatment and chemical castration.
This story started out funny, but then turned sad. It’s really crazy that you can still be imprisoned just for being who you are in some countries. Really sad.
Well, we all know what the attitude to homosexuality is in the middle East. So if you get pissed and have public gay sex there, the consequences are predictable. I don’t understand why gay people even contribute to the economies of such direly homophobic countries as UAE by visiting them? Spend your pink Rands elsewhere, sweeties…
WTF..i so with you on that one..fuck those arabs..
Agree with WTF …. straightforward issue!
so fukken stupid!
Am with WTF on this one. Guys we know Arab countries r full of homophobes n they’re more conservative than Africans! So if u must go n visit a homomphobic country please don’t be stupid. No matter who comes ur way it ain’t worth it.
It is illegal to have sex in public places in most countries in the world. Sex should be a private activity. These guys were clearly looking for trouble having sex publicly in the Middle East. If anything such actions just give homophobes more reasons to hate.
Although I agree with what has been said regarding sexual activity in public spaces, especially in the middle east-I do believe that if countries like these were less strict with how their citizens live their lives that there would be less activity in the streets and more in the homes…
they were probably both white or both black, and this is why they would get long sentences. [my guess is both white; and yes, there are white seychellois.]
three years in prison would cause the same amount of financial harm as the six months for the two bangladeshi guys.
but, wow. that’s really ridic.
Well if you do it in public expect that there will be consequences. For goodness sake we are all adults and not animals that mate anywhere. It is exactly this type of behaviour that make communities intollerant towards gays as they throw their gayness in to everyone’s faces.
Totally ridonculous! These guys were ridonc and so was their punishment. Raw madness runs rampant again…