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Doctor and associates face jail for carrying out abortion
A female doctor and her two associates face a three-year jail term each for selling abortion pills to a five-month pregnant woman, a court ruled.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:30 November 21, 2008
Dubai: A female doctor and her two associates face a three-year jail term each for selling abortion pills to a five-month pregnant woman, a court ruled.
The Dubai Court of First Instance charged the 38-year-old Chinese doctor, Z.K., of carrying out a premeditated abortion, which is punishable as per Federal Penal Code and Sharia, by selling the pill to the Iranian pregnant woman.
Presiding Judge Fahmi Mounir also found Z.K.'s compatriot associates, 51-year-old female S.W. and her husband W.C., guilty of aiding and abetting the doctor. They will be deported after serving their punishments.
The court acquitted 22-year-old Chinese salesman, X.X. for lack of evidence.
The accused doctor pleaded not guilty and denied selling an abortion pill to the Iranian, S.A., to abort her illegitimate foetus for Dh2,300.
The doctor's three compatriot associates also pleaded not guilty.
Woman's cry
Records said an Iranian salesman, who escorted his sister to Z.K.'s clinic and bought an abortion pill for Dh100, heard S.A. crying in pain before he ordered his sister to return home and informed the police.
The Public Prosecution charged the doctor with carrying out a premeditated abortion.
S.W., W.C. and X.X. were charged with aiding and abetting Z.K. An Emirati police major testified: "The Iranian salesman, M.B., said he went to the clinic in Nakheel area and when he heard a woman's cry he asked his sister to leave.
M.B. claimed that Z.K. who wore a doctor's white robe went out to him and sold him a pill after he claimed he needed it for his pregnant wife. We raided the flat after M.B. informed us what happened."
The major stated that S.A.'s foetus was disposed in a plastic bag and when they questioned her she alleged that she carried out abortion for Dh2,300 because she conceived after being raped by her sponsor in Abu Dhabi.
The ruling is still subject to appeal within 15 days.
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