British Woman Reports Rape in Dubai, Promptly Arrested

Following her acceptance of her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, a 23 year old British Muslim woman started celebrating.

She later found herself semi-conscious in a bathroom stall being raped by the man who was bringing her drinks.  When her fiancé found out, they both went to the police.

They were both arrested:

Despite approaching police about the attack, she was arrested after admitting to "illegal drinking" outside licensed premises as well as having sexual intercourse outside marriage. Her fiancé was also charged with the same offences.

The couple from London are now reportedly on bail and understood to be awaiting trial after having their passports confiscated. Should they be found guilty, they could face up to six years in jail.

Wonderful.

And since it’s basically her word against his, she’s probably looking at a guilty verdict.  After all, she doesn’t have four witnesses:

In case of sexual crimes such as zina (extramarital sex), for both men and women four witnesses are required to testify that they have seen the accused individuals having intercourse, meaning actually four of them should have seen the act as ‘insertion of thread through the needle’s hole’. According to Islamic law the couple cannot be tried for zina if four witnesses are not available. Thus a strict Islamic punishment is unlikely to be executed, as there is little chance of finding such accurate witnesses.

At least she didn’t get killed by her family for shaming them.  Of course, that would have been fine in the eyes of Islam.