From the Sydney Morning Herald today:<\/p>\n
Six months' jail for cross-dressing in Dubai<\/p>\n
February 2, 2009 - 6:15AM<\/p>\n
A Dubai court has fined an Indian man who said he was rehearsing for a role in a Bollywood movie for cross-dressing after he was seen applying mascara at a shopping mall, a newspaper reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The court found the 45-year-old property development firm manager identified only as PK guilty of cross-dressing in public, the English-language Gulf News said.<\/p>\n
\"I'm not guilty ... I was cross-dressed because I was training to perform a woman's role in Indian cinema,\" the newspaper reported the defendant as telling the public prosecutor.<\/p>\n
The court fined him 10,000 dirhams ($4,000) and gave him a six-month jail sentence, suspended for three years during which the man must not repeat the act.<\/p>\n
However, the prosecution has appealed to seek stiffer punishment, the paper said, adding that the appeal would be heard next month.<\/p>\n
Police who apprehended the man said his outfit was glittering like \"a woman's clothes,\" and that \"he wore a bra, mascara, women's perfume and a wig\" at the Mall of the Emirates, the paper added.<\/p>\n
Property and finance hub Dubai is part of the seven-member United Arab Emirates, but has a diverse culture as expatriates comprise an estimated 80 per cent of the population.<\/p>\n
i think that we often forget how lucky we are ...<\/p>\n
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