DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A Dubai appeals court has thrown out a public indecency conviction after a Pakistani husband and wife claimed the car they were caught canoodling in was a private place.

Their lawyer, Majid Al Kabban, confirmed on Tuesday that the ruling by a lower court, which had sentenced the two to a month in prison and deportation, was overturned last week.

The couple successfully argued their car should be treated like a private house.

Their lawyers argued that because of the car's tinted windows, a policeman who raised the charge could not have seen what the couple did inside.

The case is the latest in a string of sex cases in Dubai. The city has lenient social codes but a tendency to crackdown on frisky foreigners. In March, a British couple was found guilty of kissing in public.