Dubai Government in damage control , if you reside in UAE you are unable to access the FCO web site.
What you should be more aware traveling to UAE is the ZERO tolerance to drugs including many over the counter item. Minute traces will and do land Britons in jail, in Dubai. search the web for examples.
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Drugs and the Middle East just don't mix. Penalties are severe and often ludicrous. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) operates a zero-tolerance policy towards drugs.
Take for example the highly publicized case of British tourist Tracy Wilkinson who spent 7 weeks in jail in Dubai in 2006 (originally a sentence of multiple years!) after codeine was found in her blood; not an illegal substance in the UK, but it is in the UAE.
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