The court awarded her 70,000 dirhams in compensation
A "hidden camera" violated the privacy of a girl in a furniture store
A girl filed a lawsuit, before the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court, against the owner of a television channel and the responsible for producing programs, demanding that they pay her a redress for the material and moral damages that she suffered, amounting to 300 thousand dirhams, while obliging them to pay 12% legal interest until payment, and obligating them to fees and expenses In exchange for attorneys' fees, for attacking her privacy and photographing her without her knowledge in the bedroom section of a furniture store using a hidden camera, with the intent to ridicule her, and the clip was shown in the dumps program on the channel and its website, which caused her moral and material damage, while the court ruled for binding The two accused are to pay the plaintiff jointly compensation for the moral damages that amounted to 70 thousand dirhams.
The details of the case are due to the fact that the girl and two of her friends went to a store to buy furniture, and when they entered the store and entered the bedroom section, they were filmed through a hidden camera, and that was a prank that the staff of the TV channel arranged, and the subject of the prank was the presence of a curtain in the entrance, When the girl and her two friends left, the staff put a door instead of the curtain so that they feel fear, and they took pictures of their reaction in a comic fashion, and they left the shop without noticing the filming, and after about three months, I was surprised that the site of the first defendant displayed a clip in the pranks program that broadcast the scene of the girl and her two friends in a way. comic.
The Public Prosecution referred the case to the Criminal Court, on charges of assaulting the privacy of the victims and others, by photographing them without their consent in a video clip in a private place they had prepared in advance for that, and they took the initiative to photograph their movements with the intention of mocking them and gaining the viewers ’consent, and that the defendants violated the privacy of the victim, by saying They published the video described above on a TV channel and on the channel's website.
A first-degree court ruling was issued to convict the entire work team, according to the charges against them, and punish them with a fine of 50 thousand dirhams each. In the civil case, its acceptance and referral to the competent court, and the defendants did not consent to that judgment, so they appealed it, and the Court of Appeal decided to reject it and confirm the appealed judgment.
The victim filed a compensation lawsuit for the damages that occurred to her, because she lives in an Eastern society and portraying the privacy of women is unacceptable in her society and customs, and that she received blame from her family and friends and her work, and that she received sarcastic comments on the video clip, and this caused her embarrassment with her family, and her job that She is prohibited from appearing in any programs, in addition to her being scared and terrified during the prank.
In its ruling, the court affirmed that responsibility for filming the plaintiff without her permission and consent rests with the second defendant, as she was the one who produced and filmed the program, indicating to the second defendant’s claim that the responsibility rests with the first defendant, as she is responsible for reviewing The product and broadcast it on the air, in accordance with the terms of the contract concluded between them.
The court ruled, in the presence of the two defendants, to compel the two defendants to pay the plaintiff jointly compensation for the moral damages incurred by her, amounting to 70 thousand dirhams, and to obligate the two defendants to pay the plaintiff compensation for the delay and delay in paying the decided amount at the rate of 5% annually from the date this judgment becomes final. And it has become clear, and even full payment not exceeding the principal sum of the adjudged amount, and obligating the defendants to pay the lawsuit's fees and expenses.
- A television channel that used the camera with the intent to ridicule her, and showed the clip in the pranks program.