Dubai: Soldier invites woman for dinner, rapes her

April 25, 2016

Dubai, Apr 25: A soldier lured a 22-year-old woman to ride with him and then drove to the desert, where he allegedly raped her, a Dubai court heard on Sunday. The Emirati defendant's compatriot friend, 20, who was hiding in the backseat when the woman - an Ethiopian - rode in the car, allegedly tried to rape her too.

The 22-year-old soldier faced a rape charge in the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday. The incident was reported on November 29 last year.

The woman said that the first defendant, I.M., called her at 10pm as she was visiting a friend in Freej Al Murar. "He invited me to dinner and picked me up. He drove for a long time before he stopped his car in the desert." She was "surprised" to see another man, M.A., sitting in the backseat. "M.A. stepped off and I.M. moved to my seat. He hit my hip when I screamed."

"He threatened he would slit my throat and throw me in the desert if I screamed."

I.M. allegedly took off her clothes and raped her while covering her mouth with his hand.

M.A. then rode in the driver's seat and told her he wanted to have sex with her. He stepped off shortly later after she cried and begged him not to touch her.

I.M. then made her sit in the backseat and took her mobile phone. "He dropped me back and threw my phone on me as I stepped off," she told the prosecutor.

Police patrol officers intercepted the defendants'car shortly later.

"We were nearby when we spotted a woman stepping off a car at 4.45am. She was crying and told us that the car's driver did something bad to her," said a police officer.

I.M. told the officers that the woman refused to step off the car and she wanted to cause him trouble. The two men and the woman were then taken to the police station.

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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