Dubai: The Dubai Court of Cassation has acquitted two expats of charges that they had a sexual relationship out of wedlock, based on the changes made to the UAE laws last year.
The Filipina and Egyptian couple, both 31, were found guilty earlier by the Dubai Court of First Instance and were sentenced to one month in jail, to be followed by deportation in October last year for having a consensual sexual affair.
The Appeal Court upheld the verdict, but the couple appealed the case at the Cassation Court after the law changed and their act was no longer considered a crime.