He sent the pictures to her ex-wife to incite him to include his children

59,000 dirhams in compensation for a woman who was photographed by her brother to discredit her

The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal upheld a ruling of the Court of First Instance, requiring a man to pay his sister 59,000 dirhams, in compensation for photographing her and publishing her photos and videos of her own, sending her to her ex-husband, and inciting him to include their children from her, in addition to blackmailing her and defaming her, after a criminal judgment was issued. Against him in the amount of 41 thousand dirhams, and the court rejected the plaintiff's request to increase the amount of compensation, to 100,000 dirhams, for the civil right.

In the details, a woman filed a lawsuit against her brother, in which she demanded that he be obligated to pay her, as a financial and moral compensation, 100 thousand dirhams, indicating that he had photographed her, and published her pictures and videos of her own, and that harmed her severely, as he was one of her family and did not protect her.

The defendant was convicted and punished by virtue of a final criminal judgment, while he did not appear, and a court of first instance ordered him to pay the plaintiff 59 thousand dirhams and the expenses.

The plaintiff did not accept the verdict, so she challenged it before the Court of Appeal, and blamed the appealed ruling on the error in the application of the law, the corruption in the inference, the failure to cause and prejudice to her right, indicating that the awarded compensation is not appropriate to the extent of the material and moral harm that was caused to her, because the appellant has to publish her photos and videos. She is in the clothes of the house, uncovered, head and arm, and other things among her relatives, her free, his family, and people, and he incited her ex-husband to inform her to withdraw her children from her, blackmail her and distort her reputation, in addition to feeling sadness and grief as a result of this criminal act.

The plaintiff requested the amendment of the civil judgment to the ruling on her final compensation of 100 thousand dirhams in full, to redress the material and moral damages she suffered, while the appellant did not attend the appeal session.

The Court of Appeal clarified in the merits of its ruling, that the appellant did not submit anything new that would reconsider the amount of compensation, or that material damage was not taken into account by the court of first degree when it decided the amount subject to the appealed judgment, noting that the constant is one of the records of the primary criminal judgment that is upheld in an appeal and has become final. He spent a temporary compensation of 41,000 dirhams for the assault on privacy by photographing and sending pictures via the "WhatsApp" program to her ex-husband, who said that he deleted the clip, and thus the total compensation is 100,000 dirhams.

The court clarified that the appellant's claim that her brother the appealed person incited her aforementioned ex-husband to take her children away from her by reporting her is a new element of harm that had not previously been brought before the court of first instance, and there is no evidence for it in the papers, in addition to the lack of evidence for the widespread publication of the photos, as the appellant says There is also no evidence of a lost gain or a loss, and therefore this court shares the court of first degree opinion in what it went to portraying moral damages as an outrage of honor, consideration and impairment of dignity, as well as in its assessment of compensation for all these moral damages by an amount of 59 One thousand dirhams, and the court decided to accept the appeal in form, and in the matter rejected it, upheld the appealed judgment, and obligated the appellant to pay the expenses.

• The plaintiff demanded 100,000 dirhams, confirming that her brother had blackmailed her and harmed her.

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