David Oliver

"Unfortunately we have many similar cases in the UAE with people who can neither pay their debts nor leave Dubai to seek employment elsewhere. We are dealing with a number of people who are looking at spending the remainder of their lives in prison, some in the latter part of their lives who have no access to medical attention. Even the people currently outside of prison are not allowed to work and when whatever money they had runs out, they are forced to beg for food or rely on charity from others.
"Holding a debtor hostage in the hope they have a wealthy relative to bail them out is both immoral and unfair." Radha Stirling, CEO and founder of Detained in Dubai

Mentally ill American stroke victim "held hostage" in Dubai over missed debt instalments David Oliver, an American former university professor is a stroke victim with mental health issues. David lost his job teaching in the UAE and was left unable to keep up his loan payments. Now, at the age of 62, he has no money to pay, is unable to get another job in the UAE (ironically because of the police case again

Free after 2 long years! Mentally ill American stroke victim held hostage in UAE over debts, finallyDavid Oliver the American University professor who was held hostage for 2 years in Dubai over personal debts he was unable to pay, is finally heading home thanks to human rights NGO Detained in Dubai. He got on a flight at 2:50am this morning and arrives at Dallas later on today where loving sister Beverly Thornton wil