mikewot

Jodi Magi was held on Sunday and deported on Tuesday after posting an online picture of a car parked across two disabled spaces outside her flat in February.
n February 24 a European woman complained to police that Magi and her husband had uploaded a picture of her parked car, along with “insulting and degrading words”.

“These included ‘crazy’ and a slang term for the male sexual organ,” said the judicial source.

Magi’s husband was questioned by police on March 3 and said that his wife had posted the picture, but denied she had written the insulting words.

Five days later, Magi was questioned and echoed her husband’s statement. She was charged and released on bail. On March 22, the Attorney General’s office questioned the complainant and asked for a police report to determine whether Magi had posted both the pictures and the words, said the judicial source.
A report submitted two days later said Magi had posted both the words and the pictures.
When Magi failed to appear at a court hearing on April 29, she was convicted in absentia and fined Dh10,000 to be followed by deportation.
On May 21, Magi appeared in court, accompanied by a lawyer and translator, and appealed against the verdict. The appeal was rejected on June 24.
Magi appeared in an Abu Dhabi court on Sunday to pay the fine and was taken into custody pending deportation to Australia.
The next day, she was transferred to the Central Prison, otherwise known as Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi’s biggest jail, and was deported at 7pm on Tuesday, on a flight to Bangkok, “a destination of her own choice”, said the source.

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shiva

This is the friend of a friend. All is not as it seems in the local media (no surprise there) and even her local lawyer was taken aback by what happened

Millhouse

free holiday to bangkok

Autonomy

I'm guessing you can't elaborate on this?

shiva

Won't not can't

Millhouse

I'm sure by three degrees of separation, it's a friend of a friend of a friend. I also have no details

shiva

Abu Dhabi is a small place 2 degrees covers pretty much everyone

norsk

come on. give us a clue at least...

shiva

its the usual story of expat vs ........... and the truth being irrelevant

norsk

Ah okay. The old Orwellian chestnut..
Story makes more sense now.

Leannmean

an expat vs. expat ???? ... sorry if the question sounds inane

DXBtoDOH

European woman usually means a Russian or former Soviet bloc expat or they would have explicitly stated the country of origin. Notice how UK expats are always referred to as British/UK but never European? Same with French or German.

My guess is a Russian married to a local.

Leannmean

Oh , kinda thought about that but wasn't really sure , thank you
but deportation because of a FB post is still way too extreme , even for this region standards ....

Meow

The issue isn't the FB post, per se, but that someone who saw it chose to be offended and reported her to the authorities. Too many tittle tattles in this region who love to go running to the police yelling "he did it" for minor issues.

norsk

those easily offended people exist everywhere, but usually they are ignored..