{"id":33089,"date":"2017-03-09T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/couple-detained-in-uae-for-sex-outside-marriage\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:51:58","slug":"couple-detained-in-uae-for-sex-outside-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/couple-detained-in-uae-for-sex-outside-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple &#8216;detained in UAE for sex outside marriage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for unlawful sex, a relative says.}<\/p>\n<p>Emlyn Culverwell\u201a 29, and Iryna Nohai, 27, were reportedly arrested after a doctor discovered Ms Nohai, who had stomach cramps, was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested for sex outside of marriage, which is illegal in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Culverwell&#8217;s mother has pleaded for their release, saying &#8220;the only thing they did wrong was fall in love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s foreign ministry has said that it is not able to help the couple as this is a matter of domestic UAE law, News24 reports.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government has advised the couple to get legal assistance, the BBC&#8217;s Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the UAE government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Culverwell and Ms Nohai have reportedly been held since January, but news of their detention has only emerged now.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Culverwell has been working in the UAE for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>His mother Linda told News24 that the family is &#8220;trying to get messages to the two to say we love them and that they shouldn&#8217;t be worried&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The couple have not yet been charged as the authorities are still carrying out tests, Mrs Culverwell added.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, they could face a long jail sentence.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18671 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95027779_emlyn-nohai.jpg\" alt=\"Emlyn Culverwell and his fiancee Iryna Nohai met while working in the UAE.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for unlawful sex, a relative says.} Emlyn Culverwell\u201a 29, and Iryna Nohai, 27, were reportedly arrested after a doctor discovered Ms Nohai, who had stomach cramps, was pregnant. They were arrested for sex outside of marriage, which is illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33089"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33089"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}