BBC Arabic investigation finds that domestic female migrants workers particularly vulnerable under wide lawsHundreds of women,some of them pregnant or domestic servants who are victims of rape, are being imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates every year under laws that outlaw consensual sex external marriage, or according to a BBC Arabic investigation.[br]Secret footage obtained by BBC Arabic show pregnant women shackled in chains walking into a courtrooms where laws prohibiting “Zina” – or sex external marriage – could mean sentences of months to years in prison and flogging.
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Source: theguardian.com