UAE | Crime
Dubai court sentences man to jail for humiliating wife
A man will spend three months behind bars for dishonouring and threatening to publish his wife's naked pictures on the internet after e-mailing the pictures to her family.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:37 June 30, 2008
Dubai: A man will spend three months behind bars for dishonouring and threatening to publish his wife's naked pictures on the internet after e-mailing the pictures to her family.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 35-year-old Jordanian guilty of dishonouring his wife by e-mailing nude pictures of her to her family and threatening to upload them on a dedicated pornographic website.
Records said the husband, Z.S., maligned and belittled his 27-year-old Gulf national wife when he e-mailed her father and sister saying that "I committed adultery with her before we married."
Presiding Judge Abdul Majid Al Nezami also referred his wife's civil compensation claim to the Civil Court.
The accused was charged with forwarding his father-in-law and sister-in-law two pictures of his wife in a nightgown and swimsuit and threatening to distribute her naked pictures among her relatives and friends and her father's associates.
The Public Prosecution charged the suspect with degrading his wife and threatening to scandalise her over the internet by sending two e-mails to her father and sister including the nude pictures which he threatened to distribute.
"He sent my father and sister e-mails in which he threatened to publish nude pictures of me in a sex magazine... he also threatened to publish them among friends and relatives.
The accused also sent text messages to my father's and sister's mobile phones saying that he would promote the naked pictures if I didn't stop calling his family," testified the claimant.
The woman's father confirmed her statement and testified: "He threatened to design a special pornographic website on which to upload my daughter's pictures."
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