Dubai court jails prostitute and her tout

A Moroccan woman earned Dh45,000 in flesh trade and handed over the money to a Syrian male who was acting as her middleman. However, the man refused to give her passport back to her. The woman has been sentenced to jail for one year for engaging in prostitution.

The Syrian received three years in jail for exploiting the woman. The convicts NH, 25, and MS, 35, will be deported after serving their jail terms, the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance said.

According to the records, NH came on a visit visa to the country following a promise of a maid’s job and upon her arrival at the airport on January 16, she was received by MS who exploited women and forced them into prostitution.

“While I was in my home country I was offered a maid’s job in the UAE by a woman called ‘Fawziya’, who asked me to pay her 5,000 Moroccan dirhams. against She told me that I would have to pay my sponsor double the amount when I arrived in the UAE. I am illiterate and I do not know doing anything except housework. I agreed to the terms and conditions and I handed her over my passport and pictures.

“Two weeks later, she told me that the visa and air ticket was ready. MS, a Syrian, who introduced himself to me as ‘Anas’ received me at Dubai International Airport and took me to a flat where I met the accused ‘K’ and an Ethiopian maid called Noor. MS asked me to take a shower and have rest before dropping me to my employer. However, before leaving the flat he made me stamp my finger on a payment receipt claiming that I should do that to safeguard the financial rights of my sponsor to whom I should pay the cost of the visa.

“A couple of hours later MS came back and asked me to change my dress as he would take me out to where I shall work. I changed my dress but he did not like what I was wearing and said that my dress would do not fit the work and asked ‘K’ to give me a dress. As the dress she gave me was revealing, I asked them about the nature of the work. At this moment they told me it is prostitution.

“I refused that and argued with them that if I wanted to do that I would have done it in my home country. MS threatened me with the receipt I signed saying that he will send me to prison if I do not obey stating that I should pay Dh45,000, the expenses of bringing me to the UAE.

“I did not have any other option and so I submitted to his request. He used to drop me off at different hotels in his car or by taxi as his clients demanded. On February 19, another Moroccan arrived in the country and was forced to work as a prostitute for two months. After making the amount he wanted, I asked him to hand me my passport, but he refused saying that I should continue working in prostitution.

“At this moment I reacted with anger, opened the flat’s door and started screaming and shouting and knocking at neighbours’ doors. MS deiced to run away with the other women and took with him his Samsonite. As he was stepping towards the lift I could get in with him and as the lift reached the ground floor, I tried to pull the bag from him. The watchman was there and he pushed both of us into a room and locked the door. MS called the building’s security guard who came and opened the door allowing MS to run away. However, before he left the room, I could snatch the bag from his hand and headed to the police station and reported the crime,” she testified.

Police found some notebooks where MS had registered his profit from business, passport photocopies and pictures of naked women in addition to a photocopy of a forged visa.

Police arrested the building’s security guard who denied allowing MS to run away claiming that as he opened the door, MS ran away.

Police arrested MS, who admitted his role as a pimp. MS also confessed that he had forged a photocopy of the visa to be used by ‘K” who is wanted by the police.

Police then arrested AB, 26, the new Moroccan woman who denied working as a prostitute. However, police submitted to the Court camera footage of different hotels where she had gone to ‘work’ with clients.

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