R&B singer Trey Songz’s bodyguard Cornell Whitfield is the latest Western tourist to run afoul of the sharia-based judicial system in Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the federation of the United Arab Emirates. NY Post reporter Dana Kennedy shares this story.
Miami native Whitfield, 40, who has acted as a bodyguard for many celebrities including Lil’ Kim, Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel, was sentenced to a year in prison last week for allegedly “slapping” a male fan who tried to reach out and touch Songz last March at a Dubai hotel.
Whitfield, the father of a young son, is just one in a long line of Westerners who’ve found themselves facing a nightmare of red tape, arrests and sometimes lengthy detention for what appear to be largely spurious claims.
Radha Stirling, who’s run the site Detained in Dubai since 2008, when she first helped a friend who was arrested in Dubai, has aided what she says have been “thousands” of tourists arrested on flimsy pretenses there.
Stirling told The Post that most Westerners are naive about what awaits them in Dubai.
Foreigners, she said, are targeted by both Dubai residents and expats there who know they can go to the police and make an accusation, often with no evidence, and immediately get the cops and local prosecutors on their side.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/27/news/trey-songzs-bodyguard-jailed-in-dubai-amid-warnings-over-sharia-law/
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