DUBAI // A jilted boyfriend who threatened to post photos of the woman he loved on the internet if she did not marry him was given a suspended six-month sentence at Dubai Criminal Court on Tuesday.
Pakistani M E, 28, was found guilty of issuing threats to Z M last April after already sending pictures of her to her family.
The 28-year-old woman, who holds a Comoros Islands passport, said in records that M E was her boss in 2010 and he showed her that he liked her. “We exchanged talks and messages and pictures,” she said.
The woman added that, after a while, he visited her family and asked to marry her, but the family refused as he was a different nationality.
“He tried for a month to convince them but they refused so he sent them some of my pictures and a message that he can’t live without me,” she said.
The woman lodged a police complaint against him after he sent the pictures, some of which were of her without her hijab, and he was told to sign a restraining order.
However, four months later he again sent photos of her to her brother, alongside a message that he would post her pictures on the internet if she did not marry him.
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