Dubai: A winner of a government academic excellence award is suing three of the award's executives for publishing a photograph of her not wearing a niqab (face cover) without her consent.
Source:Gulfnews
- The Emirati winner, who wears a niqab, claimed in the civil lawsuit she lodged before the Dubai Civil Court that the executives published the photo in the award's magazine and broadcast it on television without her knowledge and consent.
- "When I applied for the award, I submitted, along with the application, my personal photo with a hijab but without a niqab. It was conditional to do so for applicants. The organisers claimed they needed that picture to match with my identification papers [in case of winning] and not for publishing or printing. During the award's distribution ceremony, I was shocked when I discovered the photo had been published in the award's magazine.
She lodged her lawsuit against the magazine's chairman and editor and the award's executive who collects the contenders' applications.
She has not claimed any particular compensatory amount of money. She asked the court to assess the damages she had supposedly incurred and to order the defendants to compensate her for publishing her photo with her face uncovered.
She argued in her lawsuit that when she knew she had won, she did not attend the special winners' photo session because she refused to have her photo taken and printed anywhere.
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