Detained in Dubai, the organization which helped to free Roscommon woman Tori Towey from the United Arab Emirates last week, has confirmed it is assisting another Irish woman there who could be facing a similar travel ban.

Ms Towey arrived home in Ireland last Thursday week after she was jailed and hit with a travel ban on charges of attempting suicide and drinking alcohol after her husband allegedly beat her.

Now Radha Stirling, CEO of the organization which contacted a politician who eventually helped secure Towey's release, said another Irish woman is facing a similar plight.

The woman is living in Dubai with her husband and they have children together. According to Ms Stirling, the marriage is in difficulty and the woman now wants to leave the UAE and return to Ireland with her children.

However, her husband has threatened to contact the police and secure a travel ban if she attempts to leave.

Ms Stirling said the woman's husband is a Western European working with an airline in Dubai, and that it's a mistaken belief men who attempted to control their wives under the Emirates' Sharia law are local men.

She told the Irish Mail on Sunday: "That's one of the biggest misconceptions I find, that the men who do this to women are local Muslim men. They're often not. They're Western men, as in this case, who are using the law to make their wives do as they want. It's absolutely appalling.' She said the man in this case worked with an international airline and 'you'd never expect him to behave in this way."

Ms Stirling is now working with diplomats here and in the emirate to try to get the woman and her children home to Ireland. She said they have decided not to go public with the case until current diplomatic efforts have been exhausted.

"Hopefully we'll have a good outcome," she said. 

Meanwhile, Ms Stirling said she understood Ms Towey's husband had been fired from the airline he was working with but he is still living in Dubai.

Ms Stirling said she advised Ms Towey not to return to the UAE.

"I know she still has property there, her car is there for instance, but it's just far too risky for her to go there. Because we don't know what he's doing, we don't know if he would press charges again, it's just too uncertain."

*This article was originally published on Extra.ie.