Lehman College Student Sentenced to One Year in Dubai Prison for Incident With Security Guard at Airport
“On top of being humiliated and traumatized by airport staff, Elizabeth has suffered months of being forced to stay in an expensive country, pay expensive lawyers and miss out on her university studies.”
This is one of those situations where protests and claims of victimhood are not going to work.
The New York Post reports:
NYC college student sentenced to year in Dubai prison after touching airport security guard’s arm
A New York City college student was sentenced to one year behind bars by the United Arab Emirates for allegedly “assaulting and insulting” an airport security guard during a flight connection in Dubai over the summer, according to reports.
Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, 21, a student at Lehman College in the Bronx, was handed her sentence Monday after spending nearly three months effectively trapped in Dubai with a travel ban issued against her, according to the advocacy group Detained in Dubai.
“Elizabeth only intended to transit through Dubai for six hours but she’s been there for months on end and has lost $50,000 in expenses and lawyers costs,” said Detained in Dubai founder Radha Stirling.
“On top of being humiliated and traumatized by airport staff, Elizabeth has suffered months of being forced to stay in an expensive country, pay expensive lawyers and miss out on her university studies.”
Los Santos’ ordeal began on July 14, as she and a friend were heading home to New York from a vacation in Istanbul.
Their initial itinerary had them connecting home through Paris, but they changed the flight to transfer in Dubai so they could see the famous city during a ten-hour layover.
“We thought it would be a more modern and futuristic city but we were completely wrong,” Los Santos said, according to Detained in Dubai.
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“Elizabeth only intended to transit through Dubai for six hours but she’s been there for months on end and has lost $50,000 in expenses and lawyers costs,”
Bitch tax is a bitch.
Here, have a hot apple pie.
Know where you are travelling through. Not everywhere is like the US where you can yell at staff and assault cops then get applauded for it.
According to the full NY Post article, this poor girl was returning from a vacation in Istanbul. She claims to have been recovering from surgery (apparently Istanbul is the best place to do that), and she was wearing a complicated “waist compressor” as part of her recovery program. Somehow the Dubai airport security guard had never heard of a “waist compressor” (neither have I), and demanded she removed it. The female security team then refused to help her put it back on. In the meantime, this American college student probably treated the security guard with all the basic politeness we see college students demonstrating today.
The basic problem here, and in other cases involving Americans, is that our young men and women have NO idea of how to treat people in authority in other countries. The level of respect which Dubai demands is unknown to them. But this one at least will have plenty of time to work on that failing.
First rule: Be polite to a fault. It’s never a mistake to treat others according to The Golden Rule and with courtesy, dignity, and respect.
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