In the United Arab Emirates hundreds of women are believed to have been jailed for the practice of zina, or consensual sex outside marriage NEZAR BALOUT/GETTY IMAGESA South African man and his pregnant fiancée have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates for having sex outside marriage. The couple were detained by police on January 29 after they went to a medical clinic in Abu Dhabi because she was suffering from stomach cramps. She was then told that she was pregnant. The families of Emlyn Culverwell, 29, and Iryna Nohai, 27, originally from Ukraine, said they had been unable to contact them. Mr Culverwell’s mother, Linda, from Port Alfred, in Eastern Cape, said that…

Source: The Times March 09, 2017 00:01 UTC