Woman cleared of sex charge

DUBAI // A 40-year-old woman who called police to say she was raped and was charged with prostitution after footage of her entering a building with two men emerged was found not guilty.

Prosecutors had told Dubai Criminal Court that Egyptian Z S had been selling her body and, on December 13 last year, she called police to report that someone had broken down her front door and raped her.

She said that an African man entered her apartment in Al Baraha at about 1.30am.

However, Emirati police officer F M, 38, stated in his report that the door was smashed from the inside.

“Evidence shows that there was no signs of breaking of the lock from the outside, which makes the claim false,” he said.

After confronting Z S with the CCTV footage, police said she admitted taking money from two Saudi men she met on the street in front of the building in exchange for sex.

A forensic report showed that the defendant was not pregnant and she did not have any sexually transmitted diseases.

The court acquitted the woman.