DUBAI // A Filipino man admitted posting images of a policeman in uniform on Instagram with a caption saying that the officer is a homosexual offering sexual services.
The 29-year-old accused also confessed at Dubai Criminal Court on Thursday to threatening to defame the officer if he did not pay Dh8,000 and with using telecommunication to assault the privacy of the officer.
Both the Filipino and the Yemeni officer, whose age was not given, were charged with having consensual sex, a charge the officer will face at Dubai Court of Misdemeanours.
The policeman said he was friends with the Filipino but that he was contacted by other friends who told him that his picture in uniform was on Instagram along with inappropriate words.
“I told them it was not me who posted them and I headed to the police station to report the matter,” he said.
The criminal court heard he was then questioned by his superior and later arrested by CID officers and referred to a forensic expert.
During questioning by CID, the policeman said the Filipino posted the picture and another one of his father, images that he had sent the Filipino a year ago.
He told investigators the Filipino had threatened him to post the pictures if he did not agree to be his lover and then asked him for Dh8,000.
Court records did not offer the circumstances of the alleged relationship the pair had.
Sentence will be passed on November 21.
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