The United Arab Emirates will imprison a man up to one year and fine him up to AED 10,000 for "molesting a female in an indecent way by words or acts on a public road".

In a tweet on Saturday, the UAE Public Prosecution announced the penalties for assaulting females.

According to the Gulf country's law, any male will be sentenced to detention for a term not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding AED 10,000 who:

• molests a female in an indecent way by words or acts on a public road or in a frequented place;
• disguises in a female apparel and enters in this disguise a place reserved for women or where entry is forbidden, at that time, for other than women

In 2019, Dubai police arrested 19 people as they were found 'harassing and eve-teasing' women on beaches and roads, reported Khaleej Times.

In the same report, Article 359 of the UAE's penal code was stated, according to which, a person shall be sentenced to detention for a maximum period of one year or to a fine not exceeding Dh10,000 - or both - if he molests a woman through words or acts in a public or a frequented place.

Beaches are some of the most common places in the UAE where harassments take place as the police arrested 1,725 people for committing various offences on Dubai beaches in 2018.

However, sexual crimes are not limited to the beaches in the UAE as a delivery man faced trial for sexually harassing a woman while transporting meal at her home, according to a case filed by the complainant last year.

Crimes against women are not confined to ordinary females in the Gulf country as the case of Sheikh Latifa, daughter of a Dubai's ruler, also surfaced last year when the BBC published a video in which it quoted Latifa as saying that she was being held against her will in a barricaded villa.

Later, a senior judge ruled at London's High Court that Latifa's father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the UAE, had ordered her abduction in waters off India in 2018 and had her returned to Dubai following what was her second failed escape attempt.