It included insulting, slanderous and insulting phrases for two spouses

Text messages cost a woman 20,000 dirhams

The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance ordered a woman to pay a man 20,000 dirhams in compensation for the psychological and moral damage she sustained as a result of insulting him and his wife via text messages on the mobile phone.

In the details, a man filed a lawsuit against a woman, in which he demanded that the defendant be obligated to pay him five million dirhams in compensation for material and moral damages, while obliging her to pay fees and expenses, indicating that the defendant sent many text messages including expressions of insulting, defamation, and contempt, and directing the words The indecent prophetess, and the plaintiff’s wife was accused of committing fornication and fornication, and a criminal judgment was issued against her, which sentenced her to two months imprisonment with a three-year stay of execution.

The plaintiff indicated that the material and moral damages suffered by him were represented in the expenses incurred by him in the judicial procedures, the attorney fees for the criminal case, as well as the expenses of the pending case, and the subsequent expenses of the execution of the judgment and the attorney fees for all degrees of litigation.

He explained that he and his wife changed their phone numbers, in order to avoid pursuing the defendant, and her insistence on harassing him.

The court clarified in the merits of its judgment that it is evident from the papers that the error committed by the defendant, which is the insult of the plaintiff, has been indicted on him for proving the error on her side, so the claimed compensation must be examined, and this does not affect the criminal court stopping the execution of the judgment, referring to That the plaintiff, in his request for compensation for the material damage that befell him, did not provide in the lawsuit documents evidence of the occurrence of these material damage, but his statements were sent.

The court ruled obligating the defendant to pay the plaintiff 20 thousand dirhams in compensation for the moral damages suffered by him, and obligated the defendant to pay the lawsuit's expenses, and to reject all other requests.

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