A female Australian artist was arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi for “writing bad words on social media,” after reportedly posting a picture of a car parked across two disabled parking spots on Facebook.
Jodi Magi, 39, was arrested by United Arab Emirates police and put into prison, after being found guilty of “writing bad words on social media about a person,” ABC reported.
“No one is talking to me, no one is telling me what’s going on,” Magi said. “And they were about to put me in male lock-up and then they turned me away – no one knows what to do with me. I’m pretty scared.”
Magi reportedly took a picture of a car parked across two parking spots for the disabled, but with no permit stickers visible. When posting the image to Facebook, she blackened out the license plate number and did not mention any names.
After being detained, Magi said she was driven around in a car for around four hours. She was also forced to sign several documents in Arabic without any translation. It is not yet known how for long she will be imprisoned.
Magi has been living in Abu Dhabi since 2012, teaching design and working on her art projects, which include political satire.
She said that the Australian embassy has failed to provide any real help, aside from advising her to get a lawyer.
“I’m not sure if it was me being naive. I was under the impression that embassies were in countries to help their citizens in times of difficulty,” she said. “But from my experience it seems that their job here seems to be to generate business and they have no interest in anything other than that.”
In a statement to ABC, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said that it “continues to provide consular assistance to an Australian woman detained in Abu Dhabi and that for privacy reasons they cannot provide any more information.”
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We should stop supporting the Wahabi pervert heretics of Islam, and a lot of our other problems will go way. We should also stop supporting the LIKUD Israeli faction, and that takes care of the rest of the problems, including our trying to start a war with Russia.
Goes to show why Facebook was created in the first place.
Fucking sand monkeys!
But really…if your a woman and you voluntarily go to sand monkey world your just asking for trouble.
These sand monkeys are obviously seriously retarded.
Proof again there is no god!…cause he would evaporate the sand monkeys or put them on their own planet far away in another universe!
You need to hit sand monkeys with a stick…and say…”Bad sand monkey”
Come to think of it…why the fuck would anyone go there!