DataBreaches can’t recall any recent cases in the news involving one spouse hacking another’s email, but this one seems a bit unusual. Geoffrey York reports:
A Canadian woman says she has been stuck in the Indian Ocean country of Mauritius for the past five years, unable to return home, partly because Canada refuses to release her passport.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Mauritius says Vanita Mirpuri is prohibited from leaving the country because of a five-year-old “computer misuse” charge against her based on a complaint by her former husband. But the charge was withdrawn in March, and Canada is still unwilling to return her passport without the approval of local authorities, she says.
Ms. Mirpuri surrendered her passport to Canada’s honorary consul in Mauritius in 2021 after local police ordered her to do so. Since then, Canada has deferred to the local authorities, telling her to obtain permission from them if she wants her passport back.
When she asked the Mauritian Passport and Immigration Office to lift the travel ban after the charge was finally withdrawn, Ms. Mirpuri said, the department told her that her former husband had filed another charge against her, several years after their divorce, so the office refused to authorize the return of her passport.
Read more at The Globe and Mail.
It sounds like Mauritius may not be a great vacation destination if they allow non-residents to be detained there for years without prosecution or due process based on untried complaints from a resident.
Ms Mipuri is a Canadian national. Canada needs to get her home.
h/t, Risky Bulletin