Influencer fined $20,000 for sharing upskirting videos
The defendant refused to apologize.
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- Influencer Sherif Elbishlawi was ordered to pay CAD$20,000 for sharing intimate videos of a woman without consent.
- The tribunal ruled the woman was identifiable and the videos met British Columbia’s legal definition of intimate images.
- The tribunal rejected Elbishlawi’s consent claims, citing ignored removal requests and Meta’s repeated takedowns.
- The ruling reinforces privacy protections against non-consensual sharing of sexualized images on social media.
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A Canadian content creator has been ordered to pay CAD$20,000 ($14,248) in damages for sharing a stranger’s intimate images without her consent.
Sherif Elbishlawi from British Columbia met a woman outside of a club late at night and asked if he could lift her in the air while his friend filmed it, according to the Civil Resolution Tribunal decision released on July 10th, 2026.
The woman agreed, but during the videos, her skirt moved and lifted, exposing her underwear and partially her buttocks.
The court ruled that the woman was identifiable in the videos that were shared with tens of thousands of Elbishlawi’s followers on Instagram and Facebook.
Elbishlawi claimed that the videos weren’t intimate images, but the court said they met the criteria outlined in provincial legislation, defined as depicting someone who is nude or nearly nude, engaging in a sexual act, or with visible “genital organs, anal region, or breasts.”
Moreover, the tribunal rejected Elbishlawi’s argument that the woman had consented to the creation and sharing of the videos and that he was unaware that the applicant considered the images intimate.
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Tribunal member Maria Montgomery cited Meta’s decision to remove the videos from its platforms twice and deactivate the influencer’s accounts.
Moreover, the influencer ignored the woman’s request not to post the videos or insisted on meeting in person, because, as he said, “I don’t do favors for strangers.”
It was noted in the court’s ruling that Elbishlawi “has not apologized and maintains that he committed no wrongdoing.”
The court ordered Elbishlawi to pay CAD$20,000 in damages and banned the publication of the applicant’s name or anything that would identify her.
According to Coast Reporter, Elbishlawi’s social media accounts feature him approaching women outside nightclubs in Canada and the US.
He often asks women to let him lift them, exposing their bottoms. Skirt-wearing women are often moved in a way that reveals their underwear.