{"id":10824,"date":"2017-03-10T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/uae-releases-unlawful-sex-couple-and-drops-charges\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:29:31","slug":"uae-releases-unlawful-sex-couple-and-drops-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/uae-releases-unlawful-sex-couple-and-drops-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE releases &#8216;unlawful sex&#8217; couple and drops charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A picture showing Emlyn Culverwell and his Ukrainian fiancee, Iryna Nohai\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/17DEC\/production\/_95027779_emlyn-nohai.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Culverwell family<figcaption>Image caption                                      Iryna Nohai and Emlyn Culverwell met while working in the UAE                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A couple jailed for a month in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over &quot;unlawful sex&quot; have been released and the charges against them dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Iryna Nohai and her South African fiancee Emlyn Culverwell were arrested in Abu Dhabi after a doctor discovered Ms Nohai was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Sex outside marriage is illegal in the religiously conservative Gulf nation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Culverwell&#039;s mother had pleaded for their release, saying &quot;the only thing they did wrong was fall in love&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More on this and other African stories<\/li>\n<li>Ten things you can&#039;t do in Dubai<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates profile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Describing the phone call she received from her son on Friday to say that the charges had been dropped, Lynda Culverwell told South African media: &quot;I didn&#039;t know if I wanted to scream or cry.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;m dreaming about my grand-baby\u201a&quot; she added in an interview with the Times Live news website. &quot;I have to resist calling them every two minutes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Iryna Nohai, 27, had gone to hospital, suffering from stomach cramps. <\/p>\n<p>But a local doctor reported her to the authorities after discovering she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>When the pair failed to produce a marriage certificate they were arrested in the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#039;s International Relations Department, which had said it was unable to offer the couple any help in the case, confirmed news of the release to local media.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-39231780 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Culverwell familyImage caption Iryna Nohai and Emlyn Culverwell met while working in the UAE A couple jailed for a month in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over &quot;unlawful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}