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[email protected] The Karabus case: From arrest16082_Earspace for Jewishto Chronicle freedom FA.indd 1 2011/08/19 10:40 AM Exclusive interview with Professor Cyril Karabus “If you are not Arab, you are treated pension, he would not have needed to He was eventually acquitted twice, and as a second-class citizen,” Professor work overseas in the first place. then had to battle to receive his passport Cyril Karabus told the Cape Jewish The oncologist worked as a locum at and visa. Chronicle about his detainment in the the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Centre in Abu No justice United Arab Emirates (UAE) for over 9 Dhabi in 2002, where he simply continued “If you are against an Arab, you will lose,” months. the medical treatment of a Yemeni child he says, again emphasising that as a with acute myeloid leukaemia, who later foreigner in the UAE, he was treated as rofessor Karabus, a paediatric succumbed to her illness. He left the a second-class citizen. He insists that Poncologist from Cape Town, was country at the end of his contract; and antisemitism did not come into play, and detained in the UAE in August 2012 and unbeknown to him, was later tried and that his Judaism was not a factor.