A British mother held in Dubai for calling her ex-husband’s new wife “a horse” on Facebook collapsed in tears outside a courtroom today after her case was adjourned.
Laleh Shahravesh, 55, cried “No, no,” and had to be comforted by local women outside the building in the United Arab Emirates.
Ms Shahravesh, from Richmond, was expecting to hear her fate today, only to be told by the Emirati judge that the case would be postponed.
As she was helped into a taxi sobbing, she cried out, “I’m going to die,” MailOnline reported. “I just feel so sick and don’t know how I am going to cope with more time here,” she said.
“I really had hoped that the case would be dropped and I could go home to my daughter Paris. I know she is going to be devastated like me when she finds out. I’m not sure how we will both cope being apart.”
The Detained in Dubai charity, which has worked to get her released, said her alleged victim’s new lawyer had asked for more time to study the case and requested a delay.
Detained in Dubai said no date had been set for the postponed hearing, although reports said she was expected to be held for another week. Her passport has been confiscated and she has been staying in a hotel while on bail.
Ms Shahravesh faces up to two years in jail and a £50,000 fine over allegedly insulting posts written three years ago after she discovered her ex-husband had remarried.
She was held at Dubai airport along with her 14-year-old daughter Paris after flying to the country on March 10 for the funeral of her ex-husband, who died from a heart attack aged 51.
Paris, who has returned to the UK, said: “Every day I come home and I just cry.”
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