So it was like the last minute of my life I was living."ĭesperate for help, Alex says he tried to call 999 - Dubai's version of 911 - on his cell phone. "I thought they wanted to kill me, me and Alex. The friend spoke about the attack on the condition that his name be kept secret because he still lives in Dubai and fears retaliation. "Alex started to scream," his friend told ABC News, adding that Alex tried to grab his hand. And after that - I'm sorry…" Alex said, unable to continue. "They asked my friend to get out of the car, he said no, so they pulled him out with violence and they started hitting, hitting him and they hit me. Then they stopped along a desert road on the outskirts of the city.
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"So we keep driving and I see him taking an exit to go in the desert and I told him 'Where are you going?' And this is where I started to think and realize that something was wrong, you know, and they told me to shut up," Alex recalled.įirst Alex says the driver secured the child locks on the doors, trapping the boys inside.
Alex says the man behind the wheel drove past the turnoff to his house, beyond Dubai's landmark Mall of the Emirates, and into a desolate stretch of desert. He called two older friends who had a car.Īlex and his friend accepted the ride and got in the car. When it was time to go home, a local teenager they barely knew offered to give them a lift when they couldn't find a cab. Then 15-year-old Alex spent the day at the beach with his friend.
Saturday July 14th of this year was just another summer day in paradise. "Homosexuality is taboo, rape is taboo, and AIDS is taboo," said Veronique Robert. What happened to Alex has thrown a worldwide spotlight on the dark side of a city where a victim can be treated as a criminal, where homosexuality is outlawed and where AIDS is buried under a layer of shame. And they played with my life and I don't know, they…they destroyed me." "Today I feel like they lied to me, they treated me like nothing, like a toy. "Before, I felt like it was paradise, it was honestly paradise," Alex told ABC News last month. Their names and the details of their convictions were not released by the court. Today, two men were sentenced in a Dubai court to 15 years each in prison in the case.