A Canadian social media influencer has been ordered to pay $20,000 after posting intimate images of a woman online without her consent. In a decision released by the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal on 9 July, Sherif Elbishlawi, famous for lifting women onto his shoulders outside nightclubs, has been found to have breached British Columbia's Intimate Image Protection Act. The tribunal ruled that he posted footage that revealed the woman's underwear and partially exposed her buttocks to his massive following online.
The woman, who is protected by a publication ban, had been drinking when Elbishlawi asked to lift her. While she initially agreed, she soon realised that the recordings exposed intimate parts of her body, and she told him not to upload them. Elbishlawi posted the videos anyway.
