Be careful of whom you shoot with ur camera
One year jail and QR200,000 fine for man who distributed ‘indecent’ photos of woman
DOHA: A criminal court has sentenced a man to one year in jail and ordered him to pay up compensation to the tune of QR200,000 to a young woman for distributing her objectionable photographs to some of his friends, relatives and neighbours.
The convict was additionally charged with sexually harassing and kidnapping the victim. But the court acquitted him of these charges.
The presiding judge, Mamoun Hamour, also declined the plea of the plaintiff that she be paid damages to the tune of QR1m since the convict’s act had caused immense harm to her reputation.
The judge, though, accepted her plea but reduced the compensation amount to QR200,000. The incident occurred in 2007. The convict, who is related to the plaintiff, told her one day that he had some family problems which he wanted to discuss with her.
The woman agreed, albeit with some reluctance, to hear him out, but when in private, he made some indirect passes, showing what his real intentions were in seeking a meeting with her.
He took her photographs using his camera-fitted mobile phone handset but when the woman objected, he assured her that he would soon be deleting these images.
However, instead of deleting the pictures, he forwarded them to a number of people, including some of his friends, relatives and neighbors.
The victim got to know of it and furious as she was, she lodged a police complaint. The man was taken into custody and questioned. After it was confirmed that he was indeed responsible for the act, the matter was referred to the criminal court.
The lawyer of the victim pleaded with the court that he be punished severely for carrying out the defamatory act, as per the provisions of the Shariah law.
The court, however, taking a serious view of the offense, jailed him for a year and asked him to pay up QR200,00 in damages.
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anyway, no pics!
if pic no sharing!
if sharing no her know!
if her know, u no balls!
Respect their culture or else... Ask permission first...If you get a yes fine but If a no and you insisted you'll be in trouble. I had a related experience..We were on a road show and and while waiting for the events we were taking shots. One Egyptian lady was holding the camera and we were having fun being photographed. Next scenario was she positioned to take a photo of one our colleague an Egyptian woman also. She said no and even waived her hand firmly but the photographer insisted and took a shot....you know what happened next? The subject accosted her tried to grab the camera but failed...not contented she got a bottle of water and pour it on her. I couldn't believe what I saw because those two were friends and working in the same organization.After the "shower" the photographer went to Ladies room and fixed herself then returned..after a while good thing happened they were already talking as If nothing happened.
or it maybe used against you.
johnpur
thats right too!!
am telling you guys..smthn else was going on there!!
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some ppl we meet in our life, are the reason why we have middle fingers !! :D
and also she is related to the convict, why would she allow the relative to take indecent picture of her///
and also she is related to the convict, why would she allow the guy to take indecent picture of her///
something wrong with that story !!
why the hell would she allow him to take pic's for her if they were only there to talk about some private family problems!!! thats stuped!!
isn't weired?? i dunno i feel like smthn not right
for what i know ..law does not protect stuped ppl!!
but,she got protected...
peace
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some ppl we meet in our life, are the reason why we have middle fingers !! :D
.defamatory act? how
how?
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how???????
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Talk to my crown.......
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grab his cell, take ur photo, forward it, and sue him!
1- u gain money
2- u get free publicity
i bet she is now married...and rich!
Cameras at the ready....
"if you don't like the heat... get out of the kitchen... but stop trying to fan the flames before you leave... it will burn you on the a** as you go through the doorway...." ME
visit www.qaws.org
Everywhere in the world, if you blackmail, extort or threaten to kidnap someone, you can get in whole lot of troubles !
and ended up in jail?:(
Well ladies, be careful out there. These techies are so creepy nowadays.