French Boy Gang Raped
Oct 24th 2007, 9:42 pm
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Oct 24th 2007, 9:49 pm
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Re: French Boy Gang Raped
Oct 24th 2007, 9:52 pm
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Re: French Boy Gang Raped
what a dumb-ass name for a band... i mean, maybe i'll get myself a bunch of people together and tell them they're in the shakh your boootie band....how egotistical
Oct 24th 2007, 9:56 pm
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Oct 24th 2007, 10:34 pm
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Re: French Boy Gang Raped
It does seem that UK society has gone downhill too...that report about drink-spiking was 2004, several years after I left and I have not been back since...meanwhile I am glad to see that at least one person here (Annacarna) agrees with my concerns about life here.
Oct 24th 2007, 10:36 pm
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Re: French Boy Gang Raped
oh, no one disputes that you have to look after your kids, even here in the ME...it would be naive to think that nothing can happen here, so we are not disputing that bit of your post...it's the rest...
Oct 24th 2007, 10:48 pm
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Re: French Boy Gang Raped
Sure you do have to watch your kids, but the Mariah Mall is hardly Cold Harbour Lane... No guns or crack on the streets here.
Oct 24th 2007, 10:54 pm
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Oct 24th 2007, 10:58 pm
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Re: French Boy Gang Raped
Truly heartbreaking for the boy and his family.
The uncensored version of the story here....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/wo...&ex=1194494400
Alex and his family were about to learn that despite Dubai’s status as the Arab world’s paragon of modernity and wealth, and its well-earned reputation for protecting foreign investors, its criminal legal system remains a perilous gantlet when it comes to homosexuality and protection of foreigners.
The authorities not only discouraged Alex from pressing charges, he, his family and French diplomats say; they raised the possibility of charging him with criminal homosexual activity, and neglected for weeks to inform him or his parents that one of his attackers had tested H.I.V. positive while in prison four years earlier.
“They tried to smother this story,” Alex said by phone from Switzerland, where he fled a month into his 10th-grade school year, fearing a jail term in Dubai if charged with homosexual activity. “Dubai, they say we build the highest towers, they have the best hotels. But all the news, they hide it. They don’t want the world to know that Dubai still lives in the Middle Ages.”
The uncensored version of the story here....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/wo...&ex=1194494400
Alex and his family were about to learn that despite Dubai’s status as the Arab world’s paragon of modernity and wealth, and its well-earned reputation for protecting foreign investors, its criminal legal system remains a perilous gantlet when it comes to homosexuality and protection of foreigners.
The authorities not only discouraged Alex from pressing charges, he, his family and French diplomats say; they raised the possibility of charging him with criminal homosexual activity, and neglected for weeks to inform him or his parents that one of his attackers had tested H.I.V. positive while in prison four years earlier.
“They tried to smother this story,” Alex said by phone from Switzerland, where he fled a month into his 10th-grade school year, fearing a jail term in Dubai if charged with homosexual activity. “Dubai, they say we build the highest towers, they have the best hotels. But all the news, they hide it. They don’t want the world to know that Dubai still lives in the Middle Ages.”
