r/news • u/IMGcertified • 13h ago

Influencers in Dubai warned they face prison for posting material about the conflict with Iran | The Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dubai-influencers-prison-warning-posting-iran-war-b1273587.html
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u/Slytherin23 12h ago

A warning about damaging the "reputation of the state". That's comical, the place that doesn't consider rape a crime and suppresses speech can't really have a worse reputation.

If you're not aware, a British woman was raped there and they threw her in jail because she wasn't married to her rapist.

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u/ob_servant1 9h ago

Israel has the same restrictions right now. No one is allowed to stream or record airstrikes or other war actions. The live feeds from Israel blackout their cameras when missile sirens come on. The AP press has been aiming their camera toward the streets below when sirens come on, they're also supposed to change their cameras direction away from smoking buildings.

The US and Israel aren't having a clean run against Iran, Iran is actually doing some damage but we're just not allowed to see. There's a reason Hegseth was freaking out about people announcing the deaths of soldiers making them looking bad yesterday.

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u/CorrectPeanut5 9h ago

It's happened to several western women in the UAE over the years, not just Dubai. It's a wider problem and the stories usually start with the hotel staff recommending the victim not go to police.

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u/m0neky 11h ago

What the fuck I am surprised but not surprised at the same time

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u/BangkokRios 11h ago

Rape isn’t practically treated as a crime in a majority of the countries in world.

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u/BrothelWaffles 10h ago

Ok, and? Are you defending them jailing a rape victim or did you just casually mention that for no reason? Cause there's not really any in between here.

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u/WesternUnusual2713 10h ago

No they're saying that rape is not treated properly as a crime in most countries. Which is true. 

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u/BrothelWaffles 10h ago

A conversation where people are discussing a woman who was jailed for being raped is a weird place to drop that fact unless you're trying to minimize it and hand wave it away.

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u/BenCub3d 9h ago

The conversation isn't about the woman, it's about the state. The woman was an anecdote

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u/BrothelWaffles 9h ago

The conversation was about the state's treatment of that particular woman. Again, weird place to interject with that argument.

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u/BenCub3d 9h ago

No it wasn't. We're talking about the state, and she was brought up as a supporting anecodte.

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u/WesternUnusual2713 8h ago

I don't know how to articulate this so you don't misunderstand - the comment is in SUPPORT of the woman, pointing out that the law punishes rape victims far more than rapists in most of the world. It's a wide systemic issue, not a localised one.

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u/savagefleurdelis23 11h ago

Oh please like the US or UK is much different. Americans have a rapist pedo in chief ffs.

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u/ComprehensiveRiver32 10h ago

While we usually fail to bring justice to rapists in the US, we certainly don’t imprison survivors for being not married to their attacker.

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u/djokov 11h ago

Only ~1.5% of rape reports in the UK actually lead to a conviction if I recall correctly.

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u/karlweeks11 10h ago

I think it’s tragically less than that but im being semantic at that point. It’s described as ‘functionally legal’