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.

    • @NotMyOldRedditName
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      84 months ago

      If you’re in the US you can probably feel it in the clothes you wear daily, and/or the food you eat.

      • @Dkarma
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        104 months ago

        Why call out the US? This is literally any country

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        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.