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US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago

The crazy thing here is that she wasn't even traveling to Dubai. It was a layover! And all she wanted was help putting on some sort of medical device they made her remove. The whole thing was basically an extortion scheme.