....very emotional...an awful time for her but now she’s back with her loved ones...

Let's not forget that this woman is now a convicted criminal and would be barred entry to the USA. As far as I know she will also have a criminal record here in the UK, so also banned from certain professions where children and vulnerable adults are concerned.

Every cloud...I'm sure she won't have a long face about it.

oh bless her, genuine emotion there, it must have been hell not knowing when you are going to get back home.

Why was a country arresting someone over a trivial comment made on Social Media?:confused:

I know that every country has backwards laws, but this one just doesn't even make sense in the slightest.

Will the USA even take this charge seriously though? I mean she insulted someone on Twitter, that's hardly a criminal now is it?:laugh:

On a serious note, it should give people pause before they just put stuff out on social media; you could almost say...less haste, more steed.

Irrelevant how trivial it may seem, it is still a criminal conviction and US immigration is quite strict on this, especially under Trump.

What a waste of police time, a post before the law even came into place, also when she wasn’t even in the country. Probably 25% of the world visitors to Dubai are now criminals. Over half the people on this forum have done the same, are we all criminals when we visit Dubai now?

Yeah but it's not really a criminal offence is my point so surely the USA can't punish someone over something that isn't even illegal to say in their own country? She's not a danger to their people.

Agree 100% with this.

Honestly, I find the amount of censorship on the internet quite scary.

Again, agree with this, but the bolded part..forums and such are considered social media aren't they?

I rant on facebook all the time about random ****. I just put up a bit of a rant about yet another woman killed in a 'sex game gone wrong' which is just utter bollocks and excuses.

I find it very hard NOT to post about stuff like that, I should maybe really just delete my facebook and even forum posts and just start fresh, unless I want a random criminal record entry, to go along with my current ones. Couldn't go to America or anything anyway I don't think :laugh:

AFAIK, my FB is private, I am sure I have set it so people cannot even search me...like they see none of my posts if they do. I did have it set so search did not work at all, but that options seems to have disappeared now :S But my few forum accounts are obviously not private.

If it is a criminal offence anywhere, in this case Dubai,, it counts as one to US immigration, end of.

This is true. She could still get a visa although there are several hoops to jump through, including an interview. Then the embassy would hold her passport for at least a month while her application was processed. They take the offence into account and calling someone a horse on Facebook probably doesn't score very high... but you never know.

If you think that is extreme, if you are arrested, but never charged with anything, you still can be excluded from the US. US immigration is ultra strict.

Yes, they take it all very seriously. Actually, they take it seriously even if you've never been arrested. I work in the Middle East a bit and I'm always ages at immigration explaining the stamps.