The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance has sentenced eight Chinese women, all visitors, to six months in jail each, for indulging in flesh trade.

All the defendants will be deported after serving their sentences, the court ordered.

The Chinese women were charged with running a prostitution ring from an apartment in Raffa area. They were apprehended by the police on December 1 last year following a raid on the apartment. They were indulging in flesh trade under the cover of offering massage services.

In the raid, the police recovered condoms and pornographic CDs among other items from the apartment.

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Prostitution racket busted, 200 held

Dubai Police arrested 190 Asian women suspected to be involved in prostitution and 10 Bangladeshi nationals, allegedly working as pimps, in one of the biggest crackdowns on sex trade networks in the emirate on Saturday, Khaleej Times has learnt.

Around 8pm, the police received a tip-off that a number of women were involved in sex trade in some small hotels in Naif area. The police officials raided a number of hotels in the area and arrested 10 suspected pimps from Bangladesh and 190 women from Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.

Dubai Police has had several crackdowns on prostitution networks in the past. Around three months ago, they arrested 170 sex workers, which, according to the police, was one of the largest crackdowns in Dubai.

The 190 women arrested on Saturday are being interrogated. After the investigations, they will be referred to the Dubai Public Prosecution.

Earlier, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander-in-chief of the Dubai Police, had said that the police would continue its crackdown on prostitution rings. The move comes after the UAE passed a law to combat human trafficking. He urged women duped into working for such networks to contact the police.

The UAE enacted a law in November last year making human trafficking punishable by life imprisonment, and has set up a state body to combat trafficking. Source

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Businessman, seven prostitutes jailed for running brothel

A businessman has been jailed for two years for running a brothel housing seven sex workers.

The workers - of whom two became pregnant prior to their arrest and gave birth in prison - received various jail terms.

The Dubai Court of First Instance placed the 37-year-old Iranian businessman, A.R., under two-year police supervision.

The court also sentenced 23-year-old Kazakh woman, T.M., to nine months in jail for assisting the businessman in running the brothel and having an illicit affair with an Arab man.

Five Russian women and one Kazakh woman were each sentenced to six months in jail for working as prostitutes. The eight accused will be deported after serving their jail terms.

The Iranian businessman denied the charges before the court earlier.
The 24-year-old Kazakh female, A.K., had an illicit affair with a compatriot man. She fell pregnant and failed to report her crime to the police.

A policeman who questioned one of the Russian women, identified as V.S., testified: "She confessed that the businessman brought her into Dubai on a visit visa after he promised her work as a waitress. She claimed that A.K. asked her to work as a prostitute for three months until she covered the value of her visa and air ticket. She agreed and gave the money to T.M. who in her turn gave it to the businessman."

The policeman said they arrested T.M. who confirmed V.S.'s statement and A.K. who admitted that the Iranian ran the brothel. Police arrested the rest of the suspects later. Source

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Woman jailed for prostitution

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance yesterday sentenced a 23-year-old woman from Uzbekistan, M.H., to six months in jail followed by deportation for indulging in prostitution.

On January 2, Sergeant F.A. was called by a taxi driver, S.A., to Freej Murar area to solve a dispute with a woman passenger, M.H.

S.A. told the police that M.H. boarded the taxi from Deira to Bur Dubai. At the end of the trip, she told him she had only a Dh1,000 note. When the driver tried to get change at a food outlet, he was told the Dh1,000 note was counterfeit.
During interrogation, M.H. said she got the note from a customer with whom she had sex in a hotel. Source

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Court acquits housewife of prostitution charges

A 20-year-old Iraqi girl has escaped being deported to her war-torn country after a court acquitted her of prostitution charges.
The Dubai Court of First Instance acquitted the 20-year-old housewife, identified as U.H., of having sex with men for money for lack of evidence.

The Public Prosecution had charged U.H. with prostitution. Two Emirati policemen, A.H., 26, and Y.M., 25, were also charged with having group sex with U.H., her 16-year-old sister, I.H. and compatriot friend, H.M., also 16.

I.H. and H.M. are being tried at the Juveniles’ Court after the Public Prosecution charged them with prostitution.
The Court of First Instance also sentenced the Emirati policemen to three months in jail each. The 26-year-old was fined Dh1,000 for possessing liquor. Source

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Court hears case of four held on charges of prostitution

The Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday heard the case of four persons charged with being involved in a flesh trade racket. The four include three women and a man.
The male suspect, M.N.S, 36, an Arab national, has also been charged with assaulting and abusing policemen on duty. Two of the women have been charged with engaging in flesh trade and overstaying their visit visa period.

As per court records, the police were tipped off that M.N.S was running a prostitution racket along with three women, K.B.L, 43, from Azerbaijan, A.D, 36, and O.B, 37, both from Uzbekistan.
On May 24 last, a team of Dubai Police posing as decoy customers approached the building in Al Refaa area, where the four were allegedly operating from. The police team met the women suspects at the building’s entrance and once the deal was agreed, they tried to arrest them on the spot.
At this point, M.N.S reached the scene and claimed that one of the women was his wife. During an altercation with the policemen that followed, he also assaulted and abused the latter.
He took the woman he was claiming to be his wife inside the flat and slammed the door.
The other two women told the police that they had actually been forced into the flesh trade by M.N.S. and his accomplice.
All four were arrested by the police. The court has fixed the next hearing in the case on December 25. Source

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Flesh trade racket busted: over 240 arrested

In raids carried out by the Dubai Police at 22 locations in the emirate, 247 people suspected of being involved in flesh trade racket have been arrested, it was announced by Lieutenant-General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, at a Press conference here yesterday.

Also present at the Press conference was Brigadier Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation, Dubai Police.
Those arrested include 170 women on charges of being sex workers, and 12 pimps. Also, scores of customers were held in the raids.
Dhahi Khalfan said that this was one of the biggest raids carried out by the Dubai Police in a flesh trade racket case.
The Dubai Police chief said they had received a tip-off that a well organised gang was running a flesh trade racket from a number of villas and flats in Dubai.
Dhahi Khalfan said that the women who were held in the raids are mostly East Asian nationals, while the customers belong to various nationalities.
The arrested people have been referred to the Public Prosecution. Source

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Man on trial for forcing girl into prostitution

A Bangladeshi national was charged with running a human trafficking and prostitution racket and forcing a 17-year-old girl from his country into prostitution. The case came before the Dubai Criminal Court recently.
The Public Prosecution accused M.A.A., 39, of bringing the girl to the UAE and forcing her into prostitution.
The victim testified before the court on Tuesday that she had arrived in the country on June 10 on a visit visa sent to her by M.A.A., whom she knew.

There were three other Bangladeshi women on the same flight she arrived in at Dubai International Airport. M.A.A. was at the airport to receive them. They were taken to a house in Al Hamriya area in Deira where they were told to stay till M.A.A. could arrange jobs for them.
The latter, however, threatened her and compelled her into prostitution, at least ‘temporarily’. The girl agreed but also planned her escape, which later she did.
One day, she was taken to the flat of a customer by a friend of M.A.A. in a cab. When the vehicle slowed down due to a traffic jam, she jumped out and ran to a grocery shop, she said. She sought help from the shopowner who immediately informed the police.
He was taken into police custody and the M.A.A. and his accomplice were arrested.
The court remanded the two in police custody. The hearing will continue in the month end. Source

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Woman claims she was forced into prostitution

Dubai: A 25-year-old woman has pleaded innocent to charges of working in the sex industry and claimed that she was forced into prostitution.
She, however, did not identify the people who forced her at a court hearing yesterday.
"I had to offer sexual services to men against my will. Someone forced me to work in this way," the woman, identified as D.O. from Dagestan Republic, said before the Dubai Court of First Instance.
The Public Prosecution charged the suspect with working in the sex industry and consuming Methadone drug and its component, identified as EDDP. The girl also confessed to taking drugs for a medical condition. She, howver, failed to present her medical reports before presiding judge Abdul Majid Al Nezamy. Source

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Dubai - Baby left in desert

A prostitute has gone on trial for deliberately aborting her baby and asking her friend to bury the boy in the desert in a used shoe box. The 18-year-old Russian visitor, identified only as DS, arrived in the UAE and worked as a prostitute before falling pregnant, the Court of First Instance was told yesterday.
It is alleged that the woman took nine pills that she got from a Russian doctor to terminate the pregnancy. A UAE national who appeared as a witness told the court that the woman was crying and hysterical when he arrived at her home in Bur Dubai and she asked him to help bury the child in the desert.The man then informed police who raided the home of the prostitute. The police found another ten prostitutes and photographs of the dead child on a mobile phone. The trial is continuing. Source

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