Ras Al Khaimah misdemeanor court yesterday reviewed the case of an Asian and a Gulf employee accused of recording private conversations and assaulting the privacy of others. The prosecution's indictment said that the first defendant assaulted the privacy of a Gulf woman by stealing and hearing through His mobile phone conversations took place in a private place, and sent to others through the program «WhatsApp». The prosecution demanded that the accused be punished, in accordance with article 378 of the Federal Penal Code. The first defendant confessed to the tribunal the charges against him, and stated that he recorded the conversation with the victim to mention his name in it, and sent the recording to the second defendant, in order to translate the conversation into the language of an Asian state, to find out the reason for his name during her talk, and the second defendant confessed the charges She told the court that she did not know the punishment for her act, explaining that she forwarded the conversation to someone else for translation because she did not know that Asian language.
The lawyer of the first accused, Kamel al-Sayyed, the absence of the criminal intent of the crime, because his client did not contradict his statements during the stages of the investigation, and that the material and moral elements of the crime were not available, and the privacy of the complainant was not violated, and continued that the victim waived the complaint, demanding the innocence of his client.
For his part, called on the lawyer of the second accused, Jaber al-Jundi, to exclude the application of the anti-IT crimes law from the case, because it does not match the facts under the accusation, explaining that the program «WhatsApp» does not apply to the law of information technology crimes, because it is a special program, and has no spread In cyberspace, pointing to the malicious charges against his client, and the absence of criminal proceedings because of the complainant's relinquishment of the communication.