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In this case, Shahravesh faces two years in prison and a steep monetary fine under Dubai’s cyber crime law.

The alleged defamation was prompted by Shahravesh’s discovery on Facebook that her husband was remarrying, not long after he had surprised her with divorce papers after she moved with their daughter to London.

I don’t feel sorry. She made him suffer in the last year of his life. Let the law take part

“I had no idea he was getting married again, and so soon after our own marriage broke down. I reacted badly. I lashed out and wrote two unpleasant comments about his new wife on his Facebook page,” Shahravesh told London’s Evening Standard.

She had been married for 18 years to Pedro Manuel Coreia Dos Santos, 51, a Portuguese banker with HSBC in Dubai. She lived in Dubai for just eight months when he took that job.

“I hope you go under the ground you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse,” she wrote on Facebook in response to a photo of his wedding to Samah Al Hammadi, 42, a Tunisian who lives in Dubai.

“You married a horse you idiot,” Shahravesh wrote in another posting, written in England, not Dubai.

Dos Santos died of a heart attack last month. Shahravesh was arrested at the airport when she arrived for his funeral.

“I am terrified. I can’t sleep or eat. I have gone down two dress sizes because of the stress,” she told the Daily Mail. “And my daughter cries herself to sleep every night. We are so close, especially since her father left us and we only have each other. It breaks my heart to be kept apart from her.”

Hammadi told the Evening Standard she brought the criminal complaint after “suffering in silence” for a year, enduring abusive emails from Shahravesh, including to her husband’s employer.