A photo on Snapchat costs a young man 35,<> dirhams

The Abu Dhabi Family Court and Civil and Administrative Cases ordered a young man to pay a girl 15,20 dirhams as compensation for violating her privacy, after he took a picture of her and posted it on Snapchat, after the criminal court convicted him of a fine of <>,<> dirhams.

In the details, a girl filed a lawsuit against a young man in which she demanded that he oblige him to pay her an amount of 50 thousand dirhams for the material and moral damages caused to her, as well as obliging him to pay fees and expenses and for attorney's fees, noting that the defendant violated her privacy by taking pictures of her and publishing them through the social networking program "Snapchat" and commenting on them, and she asked him to delete them and refused, and he was criminally convicted and punished by fining him an amount of 20 thousand dirhams for the crime of violating the privacy of the victim. Using the means of information technology and preventing the defendant from using the information network for a period of three months, the plaintiff suffered material and moral damage as a result of the defendant's act, and attached a copy of the penal provisions and conversations through the social networking program "Snapchat".

For its part, the court clarified in the reasons for its judgment that it is legally established that every damage to others obliges its perpetrator, even if it is not distinguished, to guarantee the damage, and that the judgment issued in criminal matters shall have authority in the civil lawsuit before the civil courts whenever it has decided a necessary chapter on the occurrence of the act constituting the common basis between the criminal and civil lawsuits and in the legal description of this act and its attribution to its perpetrator, noting that the error under which the defendant was convicted is the same as the error that The plaintiff based the present lawsuit.

The court pointed out that the defendant's fault was proven according to the fixed in the penal provisions, which is available with the fault that gives rise to responsibility against the plaintiff, and as a result, she suffered material damage represented by opening a criminal report at the Police and Transport Department and following up the criminal case until its finality, fees and expenses, and moral damage represented by scratching her reputation as well as sadness and sorrow after that incident, and the court ruled to oblige the defendant to pay the plaintiff an amount of 15 thousand dirhams Jaber compensation for the material and moral damages suffered by her and oblige him to pay the fees. and expenses.