Woman jailed for three months for snooping in husband's phone

Accused says her husband had previously been caught chatting with other women

A woman has been sent behind bars for a three-month period for going through her husband's cellphone without his consent, Mail Online reported.

The woman's husband filed a lawsuit against her in which she is accused of violating his privacy, after which she was put on trial.

A court in Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost emirate of the United Arab Emirates, which is known for its Arabian Gulf beaches, found her guilty of the charges.

In his statement made against her, the man said his wife went through his cellphone and then proceeded to copy all his personal data to another device in order to search through the information.

The husband lodged the complaint after his wife was said to have scrolled through his phone contents while he was asleep.

She is believed to have then transferred photos and his conversations to her phone to show it to her siblings.

The woman, however, claimed that her husband had given her his password and allowed her to look at his phone since she had caught him chatting with other women previously as well.

The UAE has strict cybercrime laws, especially when it comes to protecting the privacy of individuals online.

Some on Twitter defended the wife, with one poster asking, "If she wasn't suspicious over something, she wouldn't have gone through his phone. Isn't it shameful for him to jail his own wife"

But others said she deserved to be jailed, with one saying: "She deserves this. No one told her to go through his phone."

The article originally appeared on Mail Online