Laleh Shahravesh (right), who discovered that her ex-husband had remarried through Facebook, wrote in Farsi, "I hope you go under the ground, you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse."
HIGHLIGHTS
British woman was arrested in Dubai when she went to attend husband's funeral
She was angry husband had left her after 18 years of marriage
Woman's daughter has appealed for mother's release
ABritish woman has been sentenced to a two-year jail term as well as a £50,000 (Rs 45 lakh) fine in Dubai.
Why?
Because she called her ex-husband's second wife a "horse" on Facebook.
Yes, you read that right.
British national, Laleh Shahravesh, was arrested under Dubai's strict cybercrime laws in March.
Wait, it gets better.
Shahravesh was arrested when she landed in Dubai to attend her ex-husband Pedro Manuel Correia Dos Santos's funeral.
Commenting on photos of her ex-husband's second marriage, Laleh Shahravesh had called his new wife Samah Al Hammadi a 'horse' and her ex-husband an 'idiot'. Shahravesh was angry that her husband had left her after 18 years of marriage and remarried in 2016.
Laleh Shahravesh, who discovered that her ex-husband had remarried through Facebook, wrote in Farsi, "I hope you go under the ground, you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse."
She had made the comment while she was in the UK.
Now Shahravesh's 14-year-old daughter, Paris, has appealed to Dubai ruler's to free her mother. She wrote in the letter, "I cannot emphasise enough how scared I felt, especially after losing my father just a week before, as I was having to worry about losing my mother as well...I ask kindly: please, please return my mother's passport, and let her come home."
The complainant, Samah Al Hammadi, had reported Shahravesh for cyberbullying, leading to the latter's arrest when she landed in Dubai on March 10 to attend Santos's funeral.
Hammadi said she was glad to see Shahravesh punished. Talking to British tabloid Daily Mail, she said, "It is a crime in Dubai. It is right. I don't feel sorry. She made him [Santos] suffer in the last year of his life. Let the law take part."