A doctor shows a hallway at the medical centre of Dubai's Al-Awir central prison (AFP/Getty) In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai ...

A British teenager sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail over a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl has handed himself in to begin his sentence. Marcus Fakana, 18, was convicted of having sex with ...

British teenager Marcus Fakana is facing a year in Dubai’s notorious Al Awir prison, where inmates have reported ‘torturous’ and ‘hellish’ conditions, after he had sex with a girl he met on holiday ...

A British teenager has been jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl while the pair were on holiday. Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old from Tottenham in north London, was on a trip with his ...

The family of a young British man facing a 20-year jail sentence in Dubai over a holiday romance have warned that his mental health is declining and they are all living in a “nightmare”. Marcus Fakana ...

(CNN) — Holiday romances are the stuff of rom-coms and chick-lit — but not for 18-year-old Marcus Fakana, who is facing a one-year prison sentence for his summer fling. The construction apprentice ...

Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old Briton, has been sentenced to one year in a Dubai prison following a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl, also from London. The case has sparked widespread criticism, ...

In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai prison, where inmates talk of being subjected to torturous conditions. British teenager ...

(CNN) — Holiday romances are the stuff of rom-coms and chick-lit — but not for 18-year-old Marcus Fakana, who is facing a one-year prison sentence for his summer fling. (CNN) — Holiday romances are ...