In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai prison, where ...

Marcus Fakana, 18, has been jailed for a year in Dubai after having a consensual sex with a 17-year-old British girl while ...

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Desperate families of detainees stranded in Dubai jail cells have been left without hope they will ever see their loved ones again as they face Christmas alone. Six people - Albert Douglas ...

Fakana and his lawyers are now deciding whether to appeal his one-year sentence in Dubai Central Prison, a jail with a poor record for human rights abuses and torture — although there’s a ...