Worker films another man taking shower in Dubai, blackmails him for sex

Dubai - The accused then opened a Facebook account and threatened to circulate the victim's video online.

A 21-year-old man allegedly secretly filmed another man taking a shower, and then used the clip to blackmail him into having sex with him, a court heard on Thursday.

Public prosecution records show the Pakistani worker peeped into the bathroom while the other worker was taking a shower, and secretly filmed him at their accommodation in Jebel Ali.

He then threatened to circulate his clip online unless he had sex with him.

He has been charged in the Court of First Instance with sexual assault on another man's privacy, and using social media and technology to blackmail and threaten the victim and breach his privacy.

The defendant admitted to police and during public prosecution investigation that he secretly filmed the victim with his mobile phone while the latter was taking a shower.

He then opened a Facebook account and sent a message to the victim with the clip and photos, and threatened he would circulate them unless he befriended him and had sex with him.

The complainant, a 21-year-old Pakistani, said he received a message on Facebook in May from a man. "The message contained a clip of me taking a shower in the bathroom inside my labour accommodation. The sender threatened he would circulate it unless I befriended him and had a sexual relation with him."

He talked to him and they then met near a supermarket in the Dubai Investment Park.

"He told me he filmed me as he wanted to have sex with me," the complainant told the prosecutor.

The phone, used by the defendant to film the victim, was seized and deposited at the public prosecution.

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• Dubai