A Saudi woman was sentenced to 48 hours in jail for filming a couple inside a restaurant without their permission in Jeddah.

After being convicted of taking video of a citizen and his wife while they were in famous restaurant and coffee shop in the Jeddah Corniche, the woman paid a heavy price for infringing privacy. Furthermore, the court ordered the convict to pledge not to repeat such an act in the future.

Okaz/Saudi Gazette learned from sources that a citizen filed a lawsuit in Saudi Arabia, accusing a woman of taking video without his permission and mocking him and his wife. As a result of the woman's invasion of privacy, the plaintiff asked the court to punish her.

In court, the accused woman admitted that she had taken video of the complainant and his wife, but denied uttering any offensive remarks about them. In addition, she justified the filming as proof of the couple's offensive remarks.

Also, the defendant claimed that she deleted the clip after the prosecution took her phone and did not have a copy of the video footage. She clarified in her reply to the court that she filmed the couple after they argued on the road before entering the restaurant, during which the man verbally abused her as ‘Oh cow.’ She also pointed out that the husband's face was visible in the deleted video clip while his wife's face did not appear.

The criminal court heard from both parties involved in the dispute, and noted that the defendant admitted taking video of the couple without permission. This was an act of assaulting the privacy of individuals and thus infringing the couple's personal rights, the court ruled, calling the confession the master of evidence.