A man will spend three months in jail and was fined half a million dirhams for sending blasphemous messages to his fiancée after she asked to postpone their wedding.
The Jordanian man, 37, sent the messages on WhatsApp between April 29 – the day his fiancée, 30, asked to postpone their wedding - and August last year.
"I was home and texted him that I need to postpone the wedding for personal reasons," she told the court.
She said he responded with a tirade of insulting messages, threatening to “burn her family in a carnage", all while cursing god and Islam.
The Jordanian woman made a complaint against him at Al Rashidiya Police Station on August 1.
Prosecutors referred him to Dubai Criminal Court, under the UAE's anti-discrimination law, and reviewed copies of the messages, sent from his Jordanian number. The couple lived in the UAE but the accused was believed to have been in Jordan when he sent the messages.
He did not attend court to enter a plea but, on Wednesday, was convicted of blasphemy, issuing insults and issuing threats and sentenced to three months in prison. He was also fined Dh500,000 fine and will be deported on completion of his jail term.
