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    Dubai Jails, Then Frees, Scottish Tourist Over Touching Man In A Bar

    One day after a Dubai court ordered Scottish tourist Jamie Harron to spend three months in jail over touching a man as he passed him in a bar, Dubai's ruler has ordered Harron freed.
    by Bill Chappell Oct 23, 2017 2 minutes
    Jamie Harron, 27, was arrested in July and charged with a variety of offenses. He was ordered jailed for three months over what he says was incidental contact with a man in a crowded bar.

    One day after a Dubai court ordered Scottish tourist Jamie Harron to spend three months in jail over touching a man on his hip or rear end as he passed him in a bar, Dubai's ruler has ordered Harron freed. The case had generated calls for a boycott against the United Arab Emirates city.

    In court, Harron's accuser, a businessman of Jordanian descent who heads a German plant in Dubai,

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