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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      85 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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        105 months ago

        Why call out the US? This is literally any country

      • @[email protected]
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        35 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.

  • @Kyrgizion
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    435 months ago

    I have very little empathy for anyone who knowingly and willingly went to live there. You want to profit from slave labour, don’t be surprised if you’re treated as one of those slaves at some point.

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    165 months ago

    Can’t imagine willingly relocating to Dubai as a solo woman. Not that she should have to deal with this but I’m also not quite sure what she would have expected.

    • @athairmor
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      125 months ago

      It says right in the post that it was her husband. Without knowing her personal situation and why she married him, maybe reserve judgement of her personal decisions and just have sympathy for someone who was beaten severely and consequently imprisoned for being a victim.

      • @[email protected]
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        55 months ago

        Everything is in the article: charges of consuming alcohol, in the shittiest muslim country. Also being a foreign woman that moved there to make instagram photos.

        I don’t go to Afghanistan to play video games while drunk for a reason.

        • @[email protected]
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          65 months ago

          I usually don’t read articles like this because there are so many bad decisions that lead to things like this and it frustrates me.

          No person deserves to be treated like she was. Nothing can excuse her husbands actions. OTOH she willingly moved to Dubai where this treatment is not only legal but practically encouraged.

          The leopards usually eat the faces of the ones hanging out with them.

  • MolochAlter
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    85 months ago

    Almost like moving to a theocratic shithole propped up by oil money and slavery isn’t a good idea?

    Wild, I know.