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Call for federal dress-code law in the UAE

12 June 2012 10:48 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. A member of the FNC has appealed for a federal law banning tourists and residents from wearing revealing clothes in public, APA reports citing UAE press.

At today’s meeting, Hamad Al Rahoumi (Dubai) plans to tell Dr Abdulrahman Al Owais, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, of the embarrassment faced by Emirati families at malls.

"At a mall in Dubai, two were in front of me kissing passionately on an escalator," Mr Al Rahoumi said yesterday. "What do you do then?

"Another couple had their hands in each other’s back pockets. For those coming with a family, this sight is not appropriate."

He said he was not talking about forcing people to wear a "niqab, headscarf or an abaya", but to dress "appropriately". He said that just as some European countries had banned the niqab or headscarf, there was no reason the UAE should not have its own dress code.

"This is not just me, this is affecting a very large segment of society," Mr Al Rahoumi said.