Australian woman jailed for a Facebook post.

“I’m scared… No one’s telling me what’s going on.”

An Australian woman has been arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi for “writing bad words on social media.”

39-year old Jodi Magi from West Australia, who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, posted an image on her Facebook account in February.

She was attempting to prove a point about a car that had parked across two disabled parking spaces without any disabled parking permit outside her apartment block.

Ms Magi blocked out the car’s number plate, and says the car was unrecognisable in the pic, but for someone that wasn’t enough and she was reported to the local police.

Ms Magi spent a night in prison and says she was made to sign untranslated Arabic documents.

In June the case went to an Abu Dhabi court where she was found guilty of “writing bad words on social media about a person.”

“I have zero idea [what I have done wrong]. I used the internet,” she told the ABC.

The ABC spoke to Jodi Magi who told them that she tried to voluntarily deport herself earlier this month and pay the $3600 fine, but local authorities refused and told her she had to present herself at court. When she did things went terribly wrong.

She was arrested.

From the back of a police van she spoke to the ABC from her phone. “No one’s talking to me. No one’s telling me what’s going on,”

Ms Magi, who works as an artist in Abu Dhabi teaching Emirate women art, illustration and graphic design, said she is terrified.

“They were about to put me in male lock-up and then they turned me away and no one knows what to do with me.

“I’m pretty scared,” she said.

While the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the ABC that they “continue to provide consular assistance to an Australian woman detained in Abu Dhabi,’ and that for privacy reasons they cannot provide any more information,” Ms Magi said that the Australian embassy in Abu Dhabi had merely told her to seek the advice of a lawyer and have not provided any further assistance.

Her Facebook page now shows the image of a zebra behind bars.

We will keep you updated on any developments in her case.

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