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A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK]
#7992443 - 02/07/08 04:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Briton jailed in Dubai after officials find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe Last updated at 18:07pm on 07.02.08
thisislondon.co.uk
A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai after customs officials found 0.003grammes of cannabis in the tread of his shoe.
Dubai is also holding an employee of the production company that makes Big Brother after authorities arrested him on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs.
The clampdown has prompted warnings to travelers to take "extreme caution" when traveling to the United Arab Emirates.
Earlier this week, Keith Andrew Brown, a 43-year-old from Middlesex was imprisoned for four years after 0.003g cannabis was found in the tread of his shoe.
Brown was stopped in transit from Ethiopia to London last September.
The amount of the drug found on his shoe would not be visible to the naked eye and weighs less than a single grain of sugar.
On February 2 a German citizen was detained for an alleged drugs offence when entering Dubai.
Cat Le-Huy, 31, an employee of the production company that makes Big Brother who was living in London, was found carrying melatonin pills to help with jetlag and sleeping problems.
Authorities also claim they discovered fragments in one of his bags which they believe to be hashish.
Le-Huy, head of technical at Endemol UK, maintains the fragments are dirt and has since been held in a detention centre while the fragments, melatonin and his urine are tested. He is expected to be transferred to a prison today.
More than 2,000 people have now signed a petition asking for the British-based technical expert to be released.
Poppy seeds in food, common over-the-counter medications and traces of banned substances are enough to warrant four-year prison sentences in the United Arab Emirates, travelers were warned today.
Visitors to Dubai and Abu Dhabi are now being advised to "take extreme caution" and "avoid arrest for 'possession' of a controlled substance".
The advice, issued by the legal charity Fair Trials International, follows a recent spate of arrests and imprisonment.
The charity, which assists those facing trial abroad, has urged travelers to ensure they are completely free of any substances prohibited by the country they are visiting.
Fair Trials International Chief Executive Catherine Wolthuizen said: "We have seen a steep increase in such cases over the last 18 months.
"Customs authorities are using highly sensitive new equipment to conduct extremely thorough searches on travelers and if they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence."
And the list of banned substances in the UAE includes many products which are available over-the-counter and off-the-shelf in the UK.
These include medications such as codeine, a common ingredient in pain relief and cold-and-flu medication, and the common baking ingredient, poppy seeds.
Other recent cases include that of a 33-year-old Londoner who was arrested at Dubai airport last May after traveling to the UAE on business.
Customs officials found 2g of cannabis in his pocket which he had forgotten about.
He was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, but granted clemency and released in October 2007.
Customs officers in Dubai also alleged they found 0.03g of cannabis on Robert Dalton, 25, from Kent when he traveled to Dubai last year.
He was stopped and searched at the airport and arrested.
He is currently on trial and if convicted, will mostly likely receive a four-year prison sentence.
Tracy Wilkinson, 45 of West Sussex, was arrested at Dubai airport in 2005 for possession of codeine which she had been using to ease chronic back pain.
She was held in custody for 8 weeks before officials accepted proof from her doctor of its use for prescribed medical purposes only.
19 French nationals have been arrested in the past 18 months for possession of banned substances.
Ms Wolthuizen added: "What many travelers may not realise is that they can be deemed to be in possession of such banned substances if they can be detected in their urine or bloodstream, or even in tiny, trace amounts on their person.
"We even have reports of the imprisonment of a Swiss man for 'possession' of three poppy seeds on his clothing after he ate a bread roll at Heathrow."
The UAE is becoming one of the world's most popular tourist and transit destinations - partly due to extensive marketing of its beaches and shops.
Charities now say travelers must be alerted to the risks they face if they are not completely clean of any banned substance or do not have a prescription for their medication.
Fair Trials International will publish a comprehensive list of banned pharmaceuticals on their website tomorrow. This can be found at www.fairtrials.net.
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Splatthefly]
#7992627 - 02/07/08 04:49 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i was once arrested for 0.76 grams of marijuana dust. of course the papers slandered my name even before i was found innocent; in fact they printed that i had 0.77 grams. i could actually still sue that fucking bitch who wrote that article, slandering my name, since i WAS found innocent, and yr suppozedly innocent till guilty. she had no right. anyways it was ridiculous. i mean really
dope dust.
What the fuck are these people, tooth fairies or somethin?
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Splatthefly]
#7992645 - 02/07/08 04:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The drug laws in the US are pretty bad, but they're not that bad. Jeez, that's ridiculous!
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Le_Canard]
#7992671 - 02/07/08 04:59 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This is fucked up beyond belief.
I cannot imagine spending 4 years in the shitter for 1 speck of weed
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: marshalldylan1]
#7992700 - 02/07/08 05:06 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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*note to self NEVER go near UAE.
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Irradiated_Feces]
#7992755 - 02/07/08 05:26 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Irradiated_Feces said: *note to self NEVER go near UAE.
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: KetamineKatalyst]
#7992794 - 02/07/08 05:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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KetamineKatalyst said:
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Irradiated_Feces said: *note to self NEVER go near UAE.
They want the tourists money but they put them in prison for this kind of thing.
A bit counter-productive innit?
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Nibin]
#7993151 - 02/07/08 06:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow. That's ridiculous. How do these freaking Arabs get away with denying extradition and handing out four-year sentences to foreign citizens?
One thing I wasn't clear on: Is melatonin prohibited in the UAE, or were the officials checking the pills to make sure they were truly melatonin?
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Hashishin]
#7993681 - 02/07/08 08:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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you guys are all crazy. he was obviously intending to sell that to small children in order to get them hooked on dope! i hear that its much more potent these days.
makes me sick....
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Splatthefly]
#7993694 - 02/07/08 08:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: lovingtickels]
#7994177 - 02/07/08 10:12 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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So in the UAE they can arrest you for not passing a piss test. I'm guessing they can make you take a piss test as soon as the plane lands.
This is something I will not tolerate. I will NEVER EVER visit the UAE for ANY reason and from this moment on I will refer to the UAE as RFC (royally fucked country). It rhymes and it doesn't require any extra letters for abbreviation. Wait, I don't even want to spend the time typing RFC, ill just refer to that place as F(Fuckheads) even forgoing the definitive article 'the' even though these laws do make them THE supreme fuckheads.
Oh, and by the way, congratulations everyone. These are the people we are relying on and giving our money to for our oil. So if you find yourself in a prison in F for THC residue on your clothes from the party you were at last month, just think; "I paid for the drug test that locked my ass away for the next 4 years."
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: HighHat]
#7994207 - 02/07/08 10:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Crazy arab bastards 
How the hell could you even notice a speck of weed?
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: sonicnirvana]
#7994483 - 02/07/08 11:49 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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sonicnirvana said: you guys are all crazy. he was obviously intending to sell that to small children in order to get them hooked on dope! i hear that its much more potent these days.
makes me sick....
Very, verrrry small children.
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Hashishin]
#7994492 - 02/07/08 11:56 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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don't forget that dollar bills all contain trace amounts of cocaine or some drug. arrest every traveler for trying to smuggle coke.
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: HighHat]
#7994845 - 02/08/08 03:17 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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> don't forget that dollar bills all contain trace amounts of cocaine or some drug.
Heh, an interesting point. The last I heard, over 80% of US paper currency have detectable traces of cocaine.
> This is something I will not tolerate.
Good for you. Now, go strap on a bomb vest and let them know how you really feel. (Just kidding!) More to the point, big deal... who cares if some backwards country wants to toss people in jail for nothing. Their country, their right to do what they want to do. For those of us that don't like it... don't visit, don't buy their products (oil), and inform others of the dangers associated with travel to that country.
I look at this more as growing pains than anything else. These Arab states/countries have been living in the dark ages since the dawn of man. With oil money, they have suddenly been dropped into the modern world. Like a child in a candy store for the first time, they are a little overwhelmed. They will either learn how to behave in the modern world, or return to the dark ages when their oil runs out.
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: Seuss]
#7995035 - 02/08/08 06:46 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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<<The last I heard, over 80% of US paper currency have detectable traces of cocaine.>>
Time to go exchange all these 100's for 1's and write up a "George Washington coke extraction tek"
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Re: A British man has been jailed for four years in Dubai for 0.003grammes of Cannabis [UK] [Re: SuperD]
#7996381 - 02/08/08 01:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i wonder if people realize why my bills don't stay flat when i hand them too them, just roll up like cigarettes. Then they end up in a drawer where they get to mingle with the others. Then in her purse where they meet new friends. Then at the bank eventually where they get straightened. I'm sure there is as much detectable coke on bills as there is human feces. but i could be wrong. ive never wiped my ass with bills before. i wonder what else is on them.
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