Emirati singer Saoud Abou Sultan, 34, and his friend have been jailed after 19-year-old Frenchwoman was found half-naked lying at a building site by a passing runner.
Emirati singer Saoud Abou Sultan, 34, and his friend have been jailed after 19-year-old Frenchwoman was found half-naked lying at a building site by a passing runner.
Emirati singer Saoud Abou Sultan, 34, and his friend have been jailed after 19-year-old Frenchwoman was found half-naked lying at a building site by a passing runner.
Emirati singer Saoud Abou Sultan, 34, and his friend have been jailed after 19-year-old Frenchwoman was found half-naked lying at a building site by a passing runner.

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Rapist singer must see out three-year sentence, Dubai cassation court rules

Emirati and friend were jailed after 19-year-old Frenchwoman was found half-naked lying at a building site by a passing runner.

Thaer Zriqat

June 09, 2015

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DUBAI // Two men, one a well-known singer, jailed for raping a Frenchwoman, have failed in an attempt to have their sentences overturned.

Emirati singer Saoud Abou Sultan, 34, and countryman A A, 23, were sentenced by the Criminal Court to three months in prison for consensual sex last November. The Court of Appeal overturned the verdict and increased the sentence for Sultan to three years and A A to one year. The Court of Cassation upheld the Appeal Court’s decision.

The court heard the attack happened at the singer’s villa on July 5 last year. A A got one year in jail for taking off the 19-year-old’s clothes and sexually assaulting her while she was unconscious but the singer took the girl’s virginity and was sentenced to three years, the court ruled.

The Frenchwoman was found the next morning, lying half-naked at a building site in Al Barsha, by an army officer who was out running.

Emirati corporal A M A, 45, said he tried to wake her but she would not get up. The woman was taken to hospital, where tests proved she had recently had sex.

Sultan rose to fame after taking part in the first series of popular Arabic television show SuperStar in 2003.

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