A court in the city of Taiz ruled to imprison three people, including a woman, in the famous case related to the blackmailing of community activist Sarah Alwan.

Lawyer Yasser Al-Maliki said that the Eastern Taiz Court convicted two people and a woman on charges of blackmailing activist Sarah Alwan, and punished them with imprisonment for periods ranging from two years to 6 months.

Al-Maliki, the victim’s lawyer, said in a post on his official Facebook page that this ruling is the second, after the court convicted in October of another person and one of his relatives on the same charge related to blackmail... considering this ruling as the minimum level for achieving justice. About two years after the start of the extortion crime.

He pointed out that the activist Alwan began pursuing the perpetrators through the official authorities that were receiving her complaints coldly, before taking action seriously and arresting one of the accused after Alwan attempted suicide.

The lawyer explained that the blackmail crime against Alwan began with her friend withdrawing her photos, who in turn gave the photos to her nephew, who in turn distributed them to a number of his relatives, including the convicted persons, and other defendants whose identities the investigations have not yet revealed, indicating that all of the defendants They formed a gang that started in the city of Taiz, continued to the city of Al-Turbah, and ended in Al-Hudaydah.

He pointed out that the gang began a series of blackmailing Alwan and threatening her through numbers, some of which were fake (Qatari and Tunisian), and defaming her by creating pages in her name and publishing her pictures. She was accused and her reputation was distorted among her community with a number of facts, the falsity of which later became clear.

In November 2022, activist Sarah Alwan was subjected to electronic blackmail from several people, threatening to publish private photos of herself, which prompted her to attempt suicide by shooting herself in the chest, so that the issue turned into public opinion.