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College student freed from Dubai after receiving 1yr jail sentence for touching security guard’s arm
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0:40Now PlayingThe New York City college student who was sentenced to a year in prison for touching a Dubai airport security guard’s arm has been freed after a “hellish 5 months” and is heading back home.
Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a Lehman College student, is “ecstatic to be returning to the US after five months of anguish,” the advocacy group Detained in Dubai said in a statement on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old’s sentence was commuted a day after she was ordered to be jailed for the July incident in which she was accused of “assaulting and insulting” a female airport employee.
“Elizabeth boarded her flight home to New York late Tuesday night,” Detained in Dubai CEO Radha Stirling said in the release. “The news that her sentence would be commuted was a welcome end to Elizabeth’s hellish 5 months in Dubai that left her humiliated, traumatized, and out of pocket $50,000.”
The advocacy group then shared a message thread between the Bronx college student and Stirling.
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