UAE
Deported For The Crime Of Checking Her Husband’s Phone
A woman in the United Arab Emirates must pay $41,000 and will be deported because she thought her husband was having an afair
Is that your husband's phone? Careful. — AFP/Getty Images
A woman in the United Arab Emirates must fork over tens of thousands of dollars and will soon be deported. Her heinous crime? She checked her husband’s cell phone to see if he cheated on her, according to news reports.
A criminal court in the emirate of Ajman found the unnamed woman guilty of breaching her husband’s privacy when she began to suspect that he was having an affair, Gulf News reported on Wednesday. Her lawyer told the paper she admitted to accessing her spouse’s mobile phone without his permission and uploaded photos to her own device.
The husband later lodged a complaint with the court, and she was convicted last week under the UAE’s stringent cybercrime law. The statute penalizes “the invasion of privacy of another person” using information technology. The court fined the woman 150,000 dirhams, or about $41,000, Gulf News reported.
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