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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Benjamin Parker and Douglas Whitbread

Student who faced year in Dubai prison after ‘airport altercation’ is allowed to leave country

Detained in Dubai

A student who was facing a year in a UAE prison after she was accused of “assaulting and insulting” staff while transiting through the airport in Dubai has been allowed to return home.

Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, 21, was “ecstatic” when police commuted her sentence and she was finally permitted to fly home to New York City.

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