{"id":484,"date":"2013-07-29T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:42:19","slug":"contentuae-condemns-indian-death-raping-young-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"UAE Condemns Indian to Death for Raping Young Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UAE court on Monday sentenced to death a 57-year-old Indian man convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl at an Abu Dhabi school, the victim&#8217;s family lawyer told Agence France Presse.<\/p>\n<p>A lower court in Abu Dhabi court found the Indian man guilty of raping the girl at a school cafeteria where he was employed and of &#8220;threatening to kill&#8221; her if she reported the attack, lawyer Hussein al-Jaziri said.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which must still be confirmed by the courts of appeals and cassation, will &#8220;give hope to the victim and her family that justice has been achieved,&#8221; said the lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He urged parents of children who are victims of rape, a taboo among conservative Emirati families, to report such crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Executions are rare in the United Arab Emirates, where death sentences are typically commuted to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2011 an Emirati man convicted of raping and murdering a Pakistani child in a Dubai mosque was executed &#8212; the first in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Source:Agence France Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UAE court on Monday sentenced to death a 57-year-old Indian man convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl at an Abu Dhabi school, the victim&#8217;s family lawyer told Agence France Presse.<\/p>\n<p>A lower court in Abu Dhabi court found the Indian man guilty of raping the girl at a school cafeteria where he was employed and of &#8220;threatening to kill&#8221; her if she reported the attack, lawyer Hussein al-Jaziri said.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which must still be confirmed by the courts of appeals and cassation, will &#8220;give hope to the victim and her family that justice has been achieved,&#8221; said the lawyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}