A young employee threatens his girlfriend by publishing private photos on "Social Media"

A 31-year-old employee turned on his ex-girlfriend as a result of a dispute between them, insulted her with offensive words, and threatened to expose her by publishing private pictures of her on social media networks, intending to harm her honor if she did not answer his phone calls, and restore the relationship between them from New, the accused was arrested after being warned once by the police, and referred to the Public Prosecution, which directed him to commit the felony of threats accompanied by a request and the misdemeanor of insult, and referred him to the criminal court, which sentenced him to three months in prison. Three years.

The victim, a 28-year-old (Arab) employee, stated that she was associated with the accused for a while, then their relationship ended and communication was cut off between them, but he kept calling her by phone and messaging her through the “WhatsApp” and “Instagram” application, but she did not respond to him, and I was surprised by him directing Threatening to publish her private pictures and insulting her with obscene words.

She added that she had filed a complaint against him with the specialized police station in Dubai, so he was summoned and obligated to pledge not to be exposed to her again, but she called her again and persisted in his actions and kept threatening and insulting her. It is posted on social networks if you do not return to it.

For his part, the accused admitted his crime in the police report, but retracted his statement in the later stages, and repeated his denial before a court during his trial.

The defense of the accused, during the appeal against the ruling of the first degree, lamented the error in applying the law, the failure in causation, the corruption of inference, and the violation of the documents established, pointing out that the initial ruling decided to convict his client despite the absence of the elements of the two crimes attributed to him and the maliciousness of the accusation and its fabrication by the victim, and the incorrectness of the Photos and documents made by herself.

For its part, the Court of Appeal stated, in the merits of the ruling, that the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the contested had fulfilled the legal elements of the case in the two crimes attributed to the accused, and stated that they were proven evidence that was reassured by the court, and the court also reassured the testimony of the victim in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, which was supported by a report The General Department of Criminal Evidence, as well as the confession of the accused in the police evidence report, so the court turned away from his denial later and did not rely on him.

In response to the defendant's plea regarding the maliciousness of the accusation, the court affirmed that this plea is nothing more than an objective argument in the assessment of the evidence that the court has reassured.

It also rejected the pleas of the appellant's attorney represented in the non-acceptance of the criminal case and the expiry of the victim's right to file the complaint with the passage of time, and her failure to disclose her desire to move a payment, noting that these defenses were a repetition of what the defense had previously held before the Court of First Instance and the latter responded to it. It was rejected by the Court of Appeal, with justifiable reasons shared by the Court of Appeal.

In response to the defendant’s attorney’s argument that the lawsuit is not subject to the information technology law, but rather the federal law applies to it because the phone used has limited communication between its people, and not from social communication mechanisms, the Court of Appeal confirmed that the crime was carried out by one of the social media programs “WhatsApp” which is subject to it. Article 16 of the Information Technology Law No. 5 of 2012 and ended up supporting the conviction of the accused, imprisoning him for three months, and suspending the execution of the sentence for a period of three years.

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