{"id":10462,"date":"2017-09-22T06:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2017-09-22T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T06:50:45","slug":"british-man-held-in-dubai-for-raising-middle-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/09\/22\/british-man-held-in-dubai-for-raising-middle-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"British man held in Dubai for raising middle finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British man who raised his middle finger at another driver in Dubai could face jail after he was arrested for &#8220;offensive behaviour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jamil Ahmed Mukadam, from Leicester, said he reacted &#8220;in frustration&#8221; when the driver cut him off in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in February but he was detained on 10 September as he returned to Dubai for a second holiday.<\/p>\n<p>His passport has been confiscated and Mr Mukadam has been told he must remain in the city awaiting a court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A Foreign Office spokesman said: &#8220;We are assisting a British man who was detained in Dubai and remain in contact with the local authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British man who raised his middle finger at another driver in Dubai could face jail after he was arrested for &ldquo;offensive behaviour&rdquo;. Jamil Ahmed Mukadam, from Leicester, said he reacted &ldquo;in frustration&rdquo; when the driver cut him off in traffic. It happened in February but he was detained on 10 September as he returned to Dubai for a second holiday. His passport has been confiscated and Mr Mukadam has been told he must remain in the city awaiting a court hearing. A Foreign Office spokesman said: &ldquo;We are assisting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}