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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Inside the dubai jail where british teenager will be locked up for holiday romance | Mind Blowing Facts

Marcus Fakana Dubai Prison

A doctor shows a hallway at the medical centre of Dubai's Al-Awir central prison - (AFP/Getty)

In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai prison, where inmates talk of being subjected to torturous conditions.

British teenager Marcus Fakana, 18, is facing a year in Al-Awir prison for a holiday romance with a British girl a couple of months younger than him.

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