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Fujairah Shariah court orders man to be stoned to death for adultery
By Salah Al Deberkey

11 June 2006


FUJAIRAH — The Fujairah Shariah Court yesterday ordered Shahin Abdull Rahman to be stoned to death and Asmaa Bikham Bijam to serve one year in jail along with 100 lashes, following their conviction of adultery. She was not sentenced to death since she is still single.


The case dated back to last April when a national knew of his maid’s illicit ***ual affair with one of her compatriots, who used to sneak to her room every day and practised adultery with her till the early hours of the morning.

The national kept an eye on the maid. He one day pretended to go to sleep and saw her opening the back door to a stranger, who sneaked to her room. He immediately called the police, who rushed to the maid’s room, and found the accused naked in bed.

The man admitted to being married and unable to bring his wife who stayed home with his children, and added that he met the maid in a market, and repetitively practised adultery with her since then. He was referred to the court, which ordered him to be stoned to death, and the maid to be imprisoned for one year and given 100 lashes.

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Two get jail terms and lashes for adultery
By Salah Al Deberkey

7 June 2006


FUJAIRAH — The Fujairah Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a 43-year-old expatriate Sindiar Mohammed Ayad and Osimi bint Kajim, a housemaid, to each serve 11 months in jail, suffer 43 lashes, and be deported, following their arrest and confession to committing adultery.


Courts records showed that a landlord overheard unfamiliar voices coming from the maid's room last April. He and his wife broke into her room, and found her in bed with a strange man. The culprits admitted before the police to having repetitively had illegal ***ual relations.

The accused were referred to the public prosecution, which charged both the expatriates with adultery and arraigned them before the court.

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2 women referred to Shariah court for accusing another one of adultery
By Adel Arafah

28 May 2006


ABU DHABI — The Federal Supreme Court has referred two women to the Shariah Court for accusing a woman employee of adultery. But the court upheld an appealed verdict denying a compensation of Dh15,000 to the employee.


The Public Prosecution charged on December 22, 2003 two women — Najlaa Ahmed and Nada Ibrahim — with calling Azza Ali in Sharjah names, using the b-word while she was performing her duty. The two defendants were referred to the Federal Misdemeanour Court in Sharjah, demanding their punishment in virtue of Article No. 373/2 of the Federal Penal Code. The victim demanded the court to order the two defendants pay her Dh11,000 in temporary damage.

On March 2004, the Court of First Instance ordered the two defendants to pay a total of Dh15,000 in compensation for the damages. The two defendants contested the verdict at the Sharjah Court of Appeal which quashed the verdict for the incompetence of the Court of First Instance to look into such a case, and referred the case to the Sharia court.

In its challenge, the Public Prosecution said that the verdict had ignored the enforcement of the law saying the phrases mentioned in the case involved slander and not insult. But the Federal Supreme Court did not accept this argument and added that the insulting word in Arabic referred to adultery.

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Woman's death sentence commuted to one-year jail
By Salah Al Debarky

20 April 2006


FUJAIRAH — The Fujairah Court of Appeal has commuted the Shariah Court verdict sentencing a woman to capital punishment for committing adultery, to 40 lashes, Dh500 fine and one year in jail to be followed by deportation.


The judgment was issued by the head of the court counsellor Mohammed Al Jarrah in the presence of counsellor Osama Al Rashedi and the Secretary-General Magudi Ali Ismail.

According to court records, the defendant Beeja A. R., a Bangladeshi woman had complained to the police against her compatriot Mohammed F. R. alleging that he sneaked into her residence by force. She further said that after he entered the house, she caught and locked him inside the bedroom. The police immediately responded to her complaint and rushed to her residence, where they found the man, as she had said, locked inside a bedroom.

On interrogation, he denied any relation with the woman, but he said it was her ‘the complainant’ who had asked him to visit her for she owed him Dh4,000 she had borrowed from him and did not return it to him. When he came to her house to settle the matter, he was shocked when the woman closed the door and immediately told the police. In his statement to the police, he confessed that he had known her for the last three years.

He further said that he used to come to her house to buy some items and had *** with her several times. When the woman was asked and interrogated, she said the defendant had taken Dh9,500 from her and confessed to having made love to him. It appeared that the woman had no residence visa, and came to the country five years ago without an entry visa, and had been living as an illegal immigrant since then. She was referred to the Public Prosecution, which charged her with adultery and staying in the country illegally before being referred to the court to stand trial.

The man and the woman confessed before the Shariah Court to have committed adultery. Therefore, the court ordered the man 40 lashes and imprisonment for 11 months because he is unmarried. The woman, who is married, was ordered to be stoned to death and slapped with a fine of Dh500 on the charge of staying in the country illegally.

The Public Prosecution and the two defendants were not content with the verdict and contested it at the Court of Appeal, which turned down the appeal of the man and upheld the verdict issued against him. The court, however, reduced the death sentence of the woman to 40 lashes, imprisonment for a year, and a fine of Dh500, followed by deportation to her country after spending the jail term.

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