The Public Prosecution has also accused the man, 38, of maintaining illicit
relations with his two female accomplices and acting as a pimp for them. The
verdict in the case is expected on June 20.
In a separate case, the two Palestinians are accused of "luring" a Filipina,
23, to the man's house in the Rayyan area on August 2, 2006.
The plaintiff, a beautician, said that she accompanied the Palestinian woman to
the man's house "to massage his mother".
"The woman left me in the house where I found only the man who raped me."
She told the police that she knew the man but she had turned down his requests
to sleep with him.
The Filipina said that she filed a complaint against the duo on August 22,
2006, almost three weeks after the incident. The trial has been adjourned to
June 20 to hear more witnesses.
The sister of the accused told Gulf Times that her brother was being kept in
"police administrative custody" despite a judge granting him bail. Suspended
sentence
A Nepalese man has been given a year's suspended prison sentence and subsequent
deportation after he was found guilty of "engaging in homosexual activities".
The decision annulled an early decision, taken in absentia, to jail the man for
one year. A court source said the decision was revised because the court found
it useless to keep the man in jail for one year with no hope for
"rectification".
The court agreed to reopen the trial as the convict challenged the verdict
given on February 14 saying that he was not informed about the hearing.
The man, 26, was arrested on August 28, 2005 some two weeks after his arrival
in Qatar , but was later bailed out.
A police officer told the Public Prosecution that a Qatari man handed over the
man to the police "because he looked abnormal".
The Nepalese said that a man, believed to be a Qatari, sodomised him twice.
Gulf Times
