Man jailed for threats after marriage proposal snub

DUBAI // A man has been jailed for three months for threatening a woman who rejected his marriage proposal.

Dubai Criminal Court heard on Sunday that Syrian R A, 24, was rejected by the woman, W A, and then he threatened her refusal would cost her “her honour”.

Prosecutors said on August 31 he met the mother of the woman and threatened her daughter. R A denied the charge.

W A’s mother, 48-year-old Z M, from Jordan, said the Syrian had visited the family and asked for her daughter’s hand in marriage but they refused.

“Following our rejection, he started making many problems for all of my family members,” the mother said, adding that the family had lodged a number of complaints against him with police.

“He signed a number of undertakings at Al Rashidiya police station that he will not cause us any harm or disturbance but he continued doing so,” said Z M.

She added that on the day of the incident, she was buying a few items from a nearby supermarket and on her way back to her apartment, she met the defendant.

She told prosecutors that he told her: “I will have your daughter pay the price for rejecting me, the price will be her honour.

The mother said that he “meant by that to rape her”.

The family again reported him to police and the Syrian was referred to prosecutors.