The court of misdemeanors in Ras al-Khaimah heard yesterday the case of the lawyer of a Gulf woman accused of transferring and publishing text messages from her husband's phone to her phone without his permission. The suspect confessed to the police and the prosecution to transfer the talks because she suspects that her husband had a relationship with another girl. The privacy of the privacy of the husband, and the transfer of images of text messages from his phone to her phone and published.

The prosecution demanded that the defendant be punished in accordance with article 378 of the Federal Penal Code, which provides that any person who violates the inviolability of private or family life of individuals shall be punished with imprisonment and a fine.

The defendant's lawyer said during his pleading before the court that the wife had been coerced into the crime. She had been in a marital relationship with the victim for nine years and tried to have the relationship between them without problems, but the elements of coercion forced her to appear in court for a crime she did not commit.

The husband decided to give his phone to his wife to search him after complaining about his behavior, but she refused to take the phone because of her upbringing and ethics, and was surprised to receive her husband text messages and phone calls repeatedly, and lost his phone and read text messages outside of The limits of fitness and red rose and the word «love» sent by one of the girls.

The lawyer explained that there is a principle established by the Egyptian Court of Cassation and supported by the French and English courts called the principle of marital control, in which he confirmed that the husband or wife when one of them is in doubt the other control the conversations and correspondence received by the other party from abroad to settle himself from suspicion of the other party, Of doubts or doubts about him, and even make the right decision of the continuation of the marital relationship or seek to differentiate between them.

He added that the suspect informed her husband that he was busy most of the time by telephone and that he doubted his behavior, which made him give her phone to inspect him and verify her suspicions, pointing out that she had seen her husband's phone with his permission and satisfaction, and that the element of coercion is what prompted her to commit the crime of transmitting text messages.

He explained that there is no criminal intent or evil motives to commit the accused for the crime, and that they held cover and not to publish marital differences, did not provide the accused any document and did not talk anything happened between her and her husband during the passage of five sessions between them in the Family Guidance Section in the Family Court, He refused to do so, forcing her to publish text messages that she had taken from his phone and attached to the case file in order to verify her statement.

The lawyer asked the court to acquit his client of the accusation attributed to her because the transfer of text messages from the husband's phone to her phone was satisfactory, and she was reluctant to transfer the messages and to pay the lawyer to avoid criminal intent in the crime, pointing out that Article 378 of the Federal Penal Code contradict with Article 15 of the Constitution concerning discrimination between third parties and members of the family.

For his part, the lawyer asked the husband to add a new restriction of Article 20 of the law of information technology crimes and tighten the penalty against the accused, because the victim was safe at the moment of the crime, and the court decided to hold the case for the verdict on Wednesday.

• The wife admitted in the investigations to transfer the conversations from her husband's phone, for suspicion that he had a relationship with a girl.

• The Public Prosecutor's Office charged the wife with assaulting the privacy of the husband and transferring her to court.