Tag: jailed
Foreign tourists jailed for driving over Chile’s famous Atacama Giant
Chief Assignment Editor- March 4, 2019 23:23Three foreign tourists who traveled by car over the famous Atacama Giant were found guilty of causing irreparable damage to the national monument of Chile. Atacama Giant is a giant ... Read More
Maldives former president Gayoom arrested for tourism related crime
Juergen T Steinmetz- February 19, 2019 05:49Maldives investigators found $1 million in former president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom bank account allegedly linked to a deal to lease public islands for tourism development in the Maldives. Abdulla Yameen Abdul ... Read More
ISIS ready to blow up a Costa del Sol Tourism festival
Juergen T Steinmetz- January 20, 2019 20:10Costa del Sol is one of the most known travel and tourism destinations in Spain. The Costa del Sol is a region in the south of Spain, in the autonomous ... Read More
Charles de Gaulle airport rolls out new taxi rules to prevent scams
Chief Assignment Editor- December 27, 2018 19:25Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport has announced new taxi rules after an unregistered illegal acb driver charged a Thai tourist couple €247 ($283) for a trip from the airport to ... Read More
Avoiding dangerous vacations 2018
Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson- September 19, 2018 21:27This is the sixth year that we have posted dangerous vacations destination information collected from news articles and reported law cases. Read More
Two Sudanese jailed over tourist kidnapping
editor- January 7, 2010 04:07KHARTOUM - Two Sudanese men who kidnapped a group of tourists in Egypt's southern desert have each been jailed for 20 years, their lawyer said on Wednesday. Read More
British tourist jailed for taking indecent pictures in Dubai mall
editor- August 15, 2008 04:50A British tourist has been sentenced to six months in a Dubai jail after being caught taking pictures up women's skirts in a shopping mall. Read More
Latvian Interior Minister described the principle culprits as “those English pigs”.
editor- February 21, 2008 04:31A British tourist who urinated on one of Latvia's most revered monuments was made an example of by the Baltic state yesterday and sentenced to five days in custody. Read More
Former Indonesian airline boss jailed in Munir case
editor- February 12, 2008 05:14Jakarta - The former executive director of Indonesia's national airline Garuda, Indra Setiawan, has been sentenced by a Jakarta court to one year in jail for assisting in the killing ... Read More