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Jun 11 2009, Shiv

I felt aghast to read that in Sharjah a foreigner man & women were declared of having an affair & were sent to jail only on being found alone in a room & being non relative as if sex is the only way man & women can communicate or there is...

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U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton speaks to the Oak Hill Youth Detention Facility football team in Laurel, Md. in this Nov. 15, 2005, file photo. The Obama administration joined the federal judge Wednesday April 29, 2009 in urging Congress to end a...