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Irish woman in Dubai reported a severe beating and they put her in jail for it (www.dublinlive.ie)

submitted 4 months ago by ByteOnBikes to c/awfuleverything@lemmy.world

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Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald has spoken out about the harrowing experience of an Irish woman in Dubai, stating: "Following one particularly severe beating in which her husband repeatedly tried to break her arm, Tori escaped upstairs and she attempted to take her own life. Tori now faces charges in Dubai of attempted suicide and the abuse of alcohol."

"The system over there, rather than protecting this woman, who is an Irish citizen, chose instead to detain her, to charge her.

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[–] Jako301@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not a US specific thing, it's the exact same in pretty much all first world countries. Even if your stuff isn't manufactured by literal slaves, its build by Eastern European minimum wage slaves that aren't treated much better than literal ones.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Was calling out US for the slave prison labour