Court Fined A Kuwaiti Woman Kd 500 For Defaming Fashionista On Social Media

The Court of First Instance fined a Kuwaiti woman KD 500 for defaming ‘Fashionista’ on social media and referred the civil aspect of the case to the concerned civil court. According to the plaintiff’s lawyer Attorney Bashayer Ja’afar, the Public Prosecution charged the woman with defaming the plaintiff on Twitter and misusing mobile phone to spread defamatory posts against the latter. The lawyer pointed out that the accused defamed her client publicly on social media and this caused moral damages. She said the results of investigations confirmed that the accused owns the Twitter account containing the defamatory posts and also confessed to have committed the act.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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