More jailed Dubai debtors join hunger strike - FT.com:
"More foreign businessmen have joined a hunger strike in a Dubai jail to protest at the “racial discrimination” they say they face as a result of Emiratis being exempted from the criminalisation of debt.
A group of western prisoners, including a Briton who joined last year’s hunger strike, have joined 12 inmates from India, Pakistan and the Gulf who have spent years behind bars and who started the protest earlier this week.
They are calling for release after being jailed for bouncing cheques – a criminal offence in the United Arab Emirates – on the basis that UAE nationals who did so have been pardoned and released."
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