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“Tierra is the most recent American vacationer to get caught up in what’s a standard rental automotive extortion scheme.”
“Rental automotive businesses are infamous for opening felony circumstances towards guests with the promise to drop the case if they’re paid off. The prevalence of blackmail is damaging to the UAE’s tourism and funding sectors and Dubai’s authorities must crack down on this abuse of course of,” stated Stirling, an activist and lawyer specializing in Arab nations’ legal guidelines.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Houston lady identified on-line because the “Sassy Trucker” who had been stranded in Dubai for months over an altercation at a automotive rental company left the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, an advocate for the girl stated.
Tierra Younger Allen, 29, took off on a flight out of the UAE and can transit by means of the UK on her approach again to the U.S., stated Radha Stirling, who runs a for-hire advocacy group lengthy vital of the UAE referred to as Detained in Dubai.
Allen paid a $1,360 deposit to Dubai police to clear the journey ban she confronted, Stirling stated.
It wasn’t clear if Allen nonetheless has any authorized complaints towards her within the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula. Officers in Dubai didn’t instantly return a request for remark, nor did the U.S. State Division.
