Scottish electrician Jamie Harron, 27, was arrested for public indecency while on holiday in Dubai<\/strong>. While in the Rock Bottom bar, he put his hand out to stop himself spilling a drink and inadvertently touched a local man\u2019s hip, according to Harron\u2019s representatives.<\/p>\n Harron has reportedly lost his job and spent upwards of \u00a330,000 ($39,000) in expenses and legal fees since he was first arrested in the country three months ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt is quite outrageous that he has been held in the country for so long already,\u201d the chief executive of NGO Detained in Dubai, Radha Stirling, said. \u201cThis is another example of how vulnerable tourists are to arrest and detention in Dubai and at how drawn out and disorganised legal proceedings are.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s reported that Harron spent five days in a Dubai prison where he was forced to share a small cell with eight other men, before his passport was confiscated and he was released on bail.<\/p>\n \u201cI have spoken to Jamie, who is under immense pressure and stress,\u201d Stirling said. \u201cHe was expecting to appear in court on Sunday, but the court moved the date without telling him or his lawyer<\/strong>. This led to a sentence of 30 days\u2019 imprisonment<\/strong> for failing to present himself at the hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n Harron\u2019s arrest is the latest in a \u201cshocking trend in sudden arrests\u201d and \u201cfalse detentions\u201d in the UAE.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is scary about these arrests, is that they happen utterly out of the blue, without warning, and without the individuals involved having any idea that they are being sought. Anyone who has had business or financial dealings in the UAE could be at risk,\u201d Stirling said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man beachte die kulturellen Unterschiede. Es kann sehr schnell \u00c4rger geben. Bahrain ist da weniger extrem, aber man sollte sich – wie \u00fcberall auf der Welt – entschuldigen, wenn man etwas falsch gemacht hat! A British man is facing up to three years in a Dubai prison after touching accidentally a man\u2019s hip while on… Urlaub in den Emiraten ist nicht ungef\u00e4hrlich!<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,198,79],"tags":[438,187,439,141],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-diverses","category-reise","tag-aerger","tag-dubai","tag-emirate","tag-gefangnis","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dubai-VAE.-Beach-.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bahrain.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dubai-VAE.-Beach--1024x685.png\")