What you looking at????
A recent article in 7 days:
http://www.7days.ae/2006/05/25/two-guilty-of-nightclub-murder.html
To summarise:
A few months ago there was an incident where a couple of local lads killed a fellow clubber 'cos he was looking at them "wrong" (7days does not provide the full details of the story - but a search through Gulf News or KT should reveal it).
There has been a verdict in this case.
1 of the lads has been sentenced to 5 years and the second to 1.
HUH?????????????????????
Lets look at that one more time:
5 years for the murderer, 1 year for the accomplice/accessory.
Lets put it into perspective - you get 6 years for a bounced cheque..... Sedition and apostacy are much much more harsh.
Basically it is a much better idea to kill the man you owe money to rather than give him a dud cheque.
Ah if it was only so easy.......
Now lets see what happens if we play around with the colour settings and increase the level of Red and Blue and Yellow and arrive at a nice shade of Brown.
Gulf News:
Indian labourer gets 15yrs for premeditated murder.
2 get 25 years for strangling woman
2 Bangladeshis get 13 year for murder.
But I guess I should stop complaining and be grateful to our hosts for allowing me to live in this splendour or leave.........
http://www.7days.ae/2006/05/25/two-guilty-of-nightclub-murder.html
To summarise:
A few months ago there was an incident where a couple of local lads killed a fellow clubber 'cos he was looking at them "wrong" (7days does not provide the full details of the story - but a search through Gulf News or KT should reveal it).
There has been a verdict in this case.
1 of the lads has been sentenced to 5 years and the second to 1.
HUH?????????????????????
Lets look at that one more time:
5 years for the murderer, 1 year for the accomplice/accessory.
Lets put it into perspective - you get 6 years for a bounced cheque..... Sedition and apostacy are much much more harsh.
Basically it is a much better idea to kill the man you owe money to rather than give him a dud cheque.
Ah if it was only so easy.......
Now lets see what happens if we play around with the colour settings and increase the level of Red and Blue and Yellow and arrive at a nice shade of Brown.
Gulf News:
Indian labourer gets 15yrs for premeditated murder.
2 get 25 years for strangling woman
2 Bangladeshis get 13 year for murder.
But I guess I should stop complaining and be grateful to our hosts for allowing me to live in this splendour or leave.........
posted by Earthbound Misfit at 12:10 AM
5 Comments:
Shocking! Great that you could find some adequate comparisons to prove the point. But, as you say, being a guest and all that...
Hey, maybe some lives are worth more than others? Or maybe it's to do with what letter of the alphabet your name begins with.
It'd be an interesting exercise to try to research the laws & the sentences, just out of interest. Are the sentences specified somewhere, or is it at the court's discretion I wonder? Does it actually say somewhere, for example, 2 years for gang rape, 10 years for a dud cheque?
Not as far as I know. The extent of punishment is fully upto the judges interpretation of the colluding laws.
I personally know a person who sold a drug from his medical store to a local without prescription. While the local went scot-free, this guy was sentenced to life-imprisonment.
Injustice happens in almost all countries. In some places, you dont even get to know about it.
I understand that there are injustices everywhere.
But it doesn't mean we should just shut up about it.
What pisses me off, is the obvious double standard. 1 law for locals, 1 for expats.
well...what are u going to do? put on your sackcloth for a start..i strongly suggest..otherwise talk is cheap!
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