DUBAI // A man already in jail for bouncing a cheque will have to spend more time behind bars after a media appeal for a home for his five-year-old daughter led to a conviction for sex outside marriage.
K T, 35, had already been found guilty of the bounced cheque charge when his friend, who was looking after his daughter, appealed in the press for a home for the girl.
The report alerted authorities and the Sri Lankan man was sentenced to one year for having sex outside marriage with his Filipino girlfriend M K, 34, who has already been deported over visa offences.
K T admitted to having consensual sex with his girlfriend when he appeared at Dubai Court of Misdemeanours on Tuesday but claimed they had married in Sharjah, though he did not have the certificate.
He said the pair had been in a relationship from 2007 and the girl was born on March 11, 2009 but she was not registered.
“We didn’t have legal residency at the time, so we couldn’t get a birth certificate for my daughter,” said K T.
The Filipina was deported and the man jailed over the bounced cheque, leaving his friend and fellow Sri Lankan, N A, 34, to look after the daughter.
“He told me to go to the Sri Lankan embassy to get travel papers so that he can send his daughter back home,” testified N A.
“I tried to put the girl in a nursery because I have to work, but they refused because the girl doesn’t have any identification papers. A news reporter published a story about the little girl in the hope of finding someone to take care of her.”
A one-year sentence was also given to the Filipina, who was sentenced in her absence.
The little girl is currently being cared for by Dubai Police’s child protection department.
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The Bio
Name: Lynn Davison
Profession: History teacher at Al Yasmina Academy, Abu Dhabi
Children: She has one son, Casey, 28
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Your UK residence status is assessed using the statutory residence test. While your residence status – ie where you live - is assessed every year, your domicile status is assessed over your lifetime.
Your domicile of origin generally comes from your parents and if your parents were not married, then it is decided by your father. Your domicile is generally the country your father considered his permanent home when you were born.
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Yemen's Bahais and the charges they often face
The Baha'i faith was made known in Yemen in the 19th century, first introduced by an Iranian man named Ali Muhammad Al Shirazi, considered the Herald of the Baha'i faith in 1844.
The Baha'i faith has had a growing number of followers in recent years despite persecution in Yemen and Iran.
Today, some 2,000 Baha'is reside in Yemen, according to Insaf.
"The 24 defendants represented by the House of Justice, which has intelligence outfits from the uS and the UK working to carry out an espionage scheme in Yemen under the guise of religion.. aimed to impant and found the Bahai sect on Yemeni soil by bringing foreign Bahais from abroad and homing them in Yemen," the charge sheet said.
Baha'Ullah, the founder of the Bahai faith, was exiled by the Ottoman Empire in 1868 from Iran to what is now Israel. Now, the Bahai faith's highest governing body, known as the Universal House of Justice, is based in the Israeli city of Haifa, which the Bahais turn towards during prayer.
The Houthis cite this as collective "evidence" of Bahai "links" to Israel - which the Houthis consider their enemy.
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