DUBAI: A couple who were caught by Dubai police having sex in the backseat of a taxi in the city are to be jailed for two months for violating the city's "illicit sex" law. Dubai's highest court overruled on Monday the appeal lodged by R.B., a 29-year-old Briton, and 28-year-old Irishman, C.M. The Dubai Cassation Court found the duo guilty of drinking alcohol, public nudity and committing an indecent act in public on May 4, 2012 in Dubai Marina. “The court has overruled the convicts' appeal and upheld the appellate judgment against them," said presiding judge Mohammad Nabeel Riyadh. The case has angered many activists in the country and the city, who told Bikyanews.com that police should be looking for actual crimes instead of trying to crackdown on this sort of thing. "We are supposed to be an advanced country with so much economic power, but the reality is that the police and the government often live in a past that shouldn't have existed to begin with," said one British man who works at a major international corporation in Dubai. BN
