The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an Israeli woman convicted on drug charges to life in prison, her lawyer said today, Ynet report. The court had initially sentenced her to death but canceled it last week. Israel says it has closely followed the case in the UAE, which normalized relations with Israel in 2020 in the first of the so-called Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration.
Fida Kiwan, a 43-year-old resident of the Israeli city of Haifa, was arrested in March 2021, Ynet reports. Authorities say they found marijuana, cocaine and MDMA pills in the apartment where she was staying, and she was convicted on charges of intending to sell drugs.
Israeli tourists have flocked to Dubai since normalization, eager to see its futuristic skyscrapers, world-famous malls and other attractions. But the UAE has some of the world’s most restrictive drug laws. Trafficking typically carries a life sentence and possession a shorter jail sentence.
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This article is misleading. She is an anti-Israel Arab Israeli.
What is anti-Israel? That’s an absurd term.
exactly. she refused to serve chayalim in the restaurant she worked at in the north and made headlines for it. She then goes to the UAE thinking she’s above the law; typical liberal.
dog. Let her rot.