March for Marcus
Supporters to assemble at Parliament Square and head towards Downing Street to call on the British government to help free Marcus.
Friends & family have organised a march in Westminster to support Marcus Fakana who spent his New Year in solitary confinement in Dubai’s notorious Al Awir prison.
18 year old Marcus Fakana was sentenced to a year in Dubai jail for having consensual relations with a British woman who was one month away from turning 18. Detained in Dubai CEO and Crisis Manager, Radha Stirling says, “Consensual sex for two Brits who are now both 18 is completely legal in the UK and it is easy to see how travelling teenage tourists could inadvertently break the law in Dubai. Marcus was not aware that the girl was one month away from being 18 until police showed him her passport. They were in the same school year and it didn’t cross their minds to confirm ages or check local laws in the ‘modern and liberal Las Vegas of the Middle East’, or so it’s marketed to be.
“On returning to the UK, the girl's strict Indian-British mother discovered the girl’s romance and reported it to Dubai police who took it upon themselves to charge Marcus with a felony, despite confirming the act was consensual.