NYC college student sentenced to 1 year in Dubai prison over airport altercation, group says
A 21-year-old New York City college student has been sentenced to prison time in the United Arab Emirates over an incident at a Dubai airport, an advocacy group said. A 21-year-old New York City college student has been sentence d to prison time in the United Arab Emirates over an altercation at a Dubai airport , an advocacy group said. Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a student at Lehman College in the Bronx, was sentenced to one year in prison after being accused of "assaulting and insulting" Dubai International Airport customs officials, according to Detained in Dubai, an advocacy organization that supports foreign nationals who have been detained and prosecuted in the United Arab Emirates. De Los Santos was traveling back to New York from a trip to Istanbul with a friend when she had a 10-hour layover in Dubai on July 14, according to Detained in Dubai. While going through security, a security officer asked the student, who recently had surgery, to remove a medical w...