A doctor hit his dental nurse assistant on the head with a telephone and walk away with a mere Dhs 500 fine and a slap in the wrist. While the poor Filipina nurse suffered a cut in the forehead and received four stitches. She was also reported to the authorities as an absconder and may be facing a six month ban.

"He hit me with the telephone so hard that I had a cut on my forehead and I started bleeding," Castello, from the Philippines, said. A surgeon in the same building gave her four stitches, she said.

The case eventually went to court, where Gouma was found guilty and ordered to pay dhs500 compensation for the attack. When Castello said she was too afraid to return to work, she was reported as an absconder, and she could now be banned from the country for six months.

Everybody deserves justice regardless of race, color, social standing and religion. In this case its clear that justice is only for the priviledge and the chosen few.

Justice Delayed, Justice Denied