Dubai: A woman has been cleared of allowing a man to take indecent footage, with his phone camera, of her while she stripped in front of him and danced half-naked.

Over uncorroborated evidence, the Dubai Misdemeanours Court acquitted the 30-year-old Moroccan woman, N.L., of allowing the man (to whom she is not related) of taking indecent photos of her.

The court also dismissed the civil lawsuit lodged against the woman by her Emirati ex-husband and rejected his claim of Dh21,000 in temporary compensation.

N.L.'s lawyer Yassir Al Naqbi, of Excel Advocates and Legal Consultants, defended: "Prosecutors falsely accused my client of allowing the strange man take photos of her naked. The ex-husband brought this case malevolently against N.L. [his ex-wife and mother of his daughter] and intended to belittle her. He intended to dishonour her, but she proved to be a strong fighter and remained resilient ... since the beginning she strongly [denied] the baseless accusation and pleaded not guilty."

Experts

A three-member technical committee of experts, assigned by court, reported that the voice heard in the video footage was not that of N.L.

According to the primary judgment, the committee also confirmed that the woman who appeared in the video footage was not the defendant.

The court acquitted N.L. after it deemed the evidence submitted against her "doubtful and uncorroborated".

Prosecution records said the ex-husband claimed that he received the video footage of N.L. on his mobile phone, via Bluetooth, while they were in a mall before they divorced.

Records said they fought and the ex-husband complained against N.L. at Sharjah police which referred the case to Dubai.

"The committee's findings corroborated the result which was reached by Dubai Police Forensic Laboratory's report ... both reports concluded that N.L. was not the woman in the clip. The ex-husband should have been ashamed of himself, and never lodged this malevolent complaint," said Al Naqbi.

The ex-husband appealed the primary judgement before the Dubai Appeals Court, which will look into the case soon.