United Arab Emirates (UAE): Imminent flogging / possible prisoner of conscience: Elie Dib Ghalib

Index Number: MDE 25/011/1996
Date Published: 13 November 1996
Categories: Middle East And North Africa, UAE

The above, a 29-year-old Lebanese Christian and restaurant manager, has been sentenced to 39 lashes and one year's imprisonment for having, as a Christian, married a Muslim woman (a UAE national).