Monday, July 8, 2002
Couple jailed for cohabiting outside wedlock
A story released today by the Agence France Presse reports that an
Islamic court in the Gulf emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah has sentenced an
unmarried Asian couple to two months in prison and 70 lashes each for living
together illegally.
A Bangladeshi woman and her Indian lover were reported by an Emirati
neighbor to the police, who arrested them after determining they were not
married.
Sharia courts throughout the United Arab Emirates federation of seven city
states hand down severe punishment for couples caught having affairs outside
wedlock.
