Two men get five years in jail for threatening to expose nude photos of woman

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld  a March Criminal Court ruling sentencing two men to five years in prison each after convicting them of threatening to expose nude pictures of a woman in one of the Kingdom’s governorate in August 2016.

The two men were declared guilty of taking photos of a woman with their phone while she was naked after threatening her at a farm on August 10 and were each sentenced to five years and four months in prison on charges of molestation.

Court papers said that the two defendants lured the woman to a deserted farm and forced her to undress before taking photos of her.

“One of the two defendants wanted the victim to help him meet her sister because he had issues with her and decided to take nude pictures of her to pressure her to help him,” court papers said. 

The victim begged the two men to erase the photos “but they refused and threatened to expose her if she informed her family”, according to court documents.

The victim did not respond to their threats and she informed her family who immediately alerted the authorities, the court added.

The defendants’ lawyers contested the ruling, stating that there “were contradictory statements by the victim and witnesses”.

Meanwhile, the Criminal Court prosecutor asked the higher court to uphold the ruling. 

The higher court ruled that the Criminal Court’s ruling and the defendants deserved the appropriate punishment.

The Court of Cassation comprised of Judges Mohammad Ibrahim, Yassin Abdullat, Naji Zu’bi, Bassem Mubeidin and Nayef Samarat.