{"id":57,"date":"2008-02-21T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/man-being-held-in-dubai-without-charge-for-possession-of-melatonin\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T18:27:21","slug":"man-held-in-dubai-faces-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2008\/02\/man-held-in-dubai-faces-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Held In Dubai Faces 4 Years Imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hampstead businessman is being held in Dubai without charge over alleged drug offences. Cat Le-Huy, who is head of technology at <em>Big Brother<\/em> creator Endemol, was arrested as he arrived in Dubai on January 26. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamhigh.co.uk\/content\/camden\/hamhigh\/news\/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&amp;category=Newshamhigh&amp;tBrand=northlondon24&amp;tCategory=newshamhigh&amp;itemid=WeED06%20Feb%202008%2016%3A14%3A27%3A850\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Having being transferred to prison after being held in the airport jail, authorities in Dubai said they found traces (0.03g) of hashish in a bag belonging to Cat Le-Huy, and are considering charging him with possession of an illegal substance. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamhigh.co.uk\/content\/camden\/hamhigh\/news\/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&amp;category=Newshamhigh&amp;tBrand=northlondon24&amp;tCategory=newshamhigh&amp;itemid=WeED19%20Feb%202008%2015%3A17%3A01%3A213\">more here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This news comes less than a month after a man was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7234786.stm\">imprisoned for 4 years<\/a> for possession of 0.003g of hashish after a roll-up cigarette was found stuck to the bottom of his shoe. Cases <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtrials.net\/index.php\/news\/article\/charity_issues_urgent_warning_to_all_travellers_to_uae_after_briton_impriso\/\">like these<\/a> are covered and helped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtrials.net\">FairTrials<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hampstead businessman is being held in Dubai without charge over alleged drug offences. Cat Le-Huy, who is head of technology at Big Brother creator Endemol, was arrested as he arrived in Dubai on January 26. (source) Having being transferred to prison after being held in the airport jail, authorities in Dubai said they found <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2008\/02\/man-held-in-dubai-faces-4-years\/\"><br \/>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[14,87,84,86,85],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmuU-V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}