Dubai court sentenced taxi driver after convicting him of sexually assaulting U.S. Navy officer
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A court in Dubai has sentenced an Egyptian taxi driver in the sheikhdom to six months in prison and deportation after convicting him of sexually assaulting a U.S. Navy officer.
The National, an English-language, state-aligned newspaper in Abu Dhabi, reported the verdict in its Tuesday's edition.
It says the 34-year-old Egyptian grabbed the 22-year-old woman's thigh and forced her to touch his groin while driving her from a mall to Dubai's Jebel Ali port in March 2017.
The taxi driver was initially cleared of the charge in a lower court, but prosecutors appealed and won a conviction at Dubai's Court of Appeal.
Jebel Ali is the U.S. Navy's busiest port of call outside of the U.S.
The US Navy's 5th Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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