{"id":37667,"date":"2021-04-07T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37667"},"modified":"2021-04-07T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T03:35:14","slug":"those-involved-in-naked-photo-shoot-on-high-rise-balconies-in-dubai-to-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37667","title":{"rendered":"Those involved in naked photo shoot on high rise balconies in Dubai to be deported"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI:<\/strong> Dubai authorities said Tuesday that those involved in a naked photo shoot on a high-rise balcony in the city will be deported, after the footage went viral and prompted a crackdown in the Gulf Arab Sheikhdom.<\/p>\n

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Footage showed more than a dozen women posing naked on a balcony in Dubai<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dubai\u2019s Attorney General Issam Issa al-Humaidan said that the public prosecution has completed investigations and those behind the photo shoot will be sent back to their countries.<\/p>\n

At least 11 Ukrainian women and a Russian were arrested over the widely shared video on charges of public debauchery and spreading pornography.
\nThe move to deport the foreigners is highly unusual for the legal system in Dubai, an absolutely ruled sheikhdom.<\/p>\n

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Typically, such cases go to trial or are otherwise adjudicated before deportation.<\/p>\n

Dubai police announced earlier this week they had arrested a group of people on debauchery charges over a widely shared video showing naked women posing in broad daylight on a balcony overlooking the city\u2019s upscale Marina neighbourhood.
\nUkraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday that 11 of the detained women were Ukrainian, while a Russian diplomat in Dubai said the photographer who filmed and took photos of the naked women held Russian citizenship.<\/p>\n

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\nThe nude photo shoot scandal comes just days before Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, and as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lands in nearby Doha, Qatar, for an official state visit.<\/p>\n

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\nOver the years, Dubai increasingly has promoted itself as a popular destination for Russians on holiday.
\nSigns in Cyrillic are a common sight at the city\u2019s major malls.<\/p>\n

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\nDubai is a top destination for the world\u2019s Instagram influencers and models, who fill their social media feeds with slick bikini-clad selfies from the coastal emirate\u2019s luxury hotels and artificial islands.
\nBut the city\u2019s brand as a glitzy foreign tourist destination has at times provoked controversy and collided with the sheikhdom\u2019s strict rules governing public behavior and expression, which are based on Islamic law, or Shariah.<\/p>\n

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\nDubai police declined to identify those detained.
\nMore than a dozen women appeared in the video and the nationalities of the others arrested were not immediately known.<\/p>\n

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\nThe generally pro-Kremlin tabloid Life identified the Russian man arrested as the head of an information technology firm in Russia\u2019s Ivanovo region, though his firm denied he had anything to do with the photo shoot.
\nThe Associated Press was not able to determine if those arrested had legal representation or reach a lawyer for them.<\/p>\n

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\nStanislav Voskresensky, the governor of Ivanovo, asked the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russia\u2019s ambassador to the UAE to offer the Russian man their support.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t abandon our own,\u201d Voskresensky wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

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\nIt\u2019s not the first time that foreign social media influencers, amateur and pro, have drawn unwanted scrutiny in the United Arab Emirates.
\nEarlier this year, as Dubai promoted itself as a major pandemic-friendly party haven for travelers fleeing tough lockdowns elsewhere, European reality TV show stars came under fire for flaunting their poolside Dubai vacations on social media and for bringing the coronavirus back home.<\/p>\n

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\nDenmark and the United Kingdom later banned flights to the UAE as virus cases surged in the federation of seven sheikhdoms.
\nAlthough the UAE has recently made legal changes to attract foreign tourists and investors, allowing unmarried couples to share hotel rooms and residents to drink alcohol without a license, the Gulf Arab country\u2019s justice system retains harsh penalties for violations of the public decency law.
\nNudity and other \u201clewd behavior,\u201d carry penalties of up to six months in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams (USD 1,360).<\/p>\n

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\nThe sharing of pornographic material is also punishable with prison time and hefty fines.
\nThe country\u2019s majority state-owned telecom companies block access to pornographic websites.
\nForeigners, who make up some 90 per cent of the UAE\u2019s population of over 9 million, have landed in jail for their comments and videos online, as well as for offenses considered tame in the West, like kissing in public.
\nDubai police often turn a blind eye to foreigners misbehaving \u2014 until they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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