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Jodi Magi, 39, was sentenced for a cyber crimes offence after reportedly posting a photo on Facebook of a car parked across two disabled spots outside her Abu Dhabi apartment.
Before being deported on Tuesday, Ms Magi said that during her two days in jail she was shackled at the ankles, strip-searched and made to sleep on a concrete floor.
She also published a lengthy post on Facebook on Wednesday morning, claiming she had not been provided with toilet paper during her 53-hour stay in prison.
"After 53 hours in custody, having been shackled at the ankles, strip-searched, blood tested, forced to sleep on a concrete floor without a mattress or pillow and having no access to toilet paper or eating utensils, I can happily say I AM SAFE AND OUT OF JAIL AND ABU DHABI!" she posted on Facebook.
"If you think what happened to me was insane, spend a couple of days in an Abu Dhabi jail; I have nothing to complain about compared to the vast majority of women I met whose only crime was being poor, marrying the wrong guy, getting pregnant outside of marriage or/and being victims of rampant and systemic police corruption where 'evidence', 'ethics' and 'due process' are unheard of concepts.
Ms Magi, an artist who studied at Edith Cowan University and has been in Abu Dhabi since 2012, was found guilty in an Abu Dhabi court of "writing bad words on social media about a person" and was told she’d be deported.
"I have zero idea [what I have done wrong]. I used the internet," Ms Magi told ABC.
She tried to voluntarily deport herself earlier this month and pay the $3600 fine, however authorities refused.
When she arrived at court to pay her fine she was arrested and jailed.
"No one's talking to me. No one's telling me what's going on," she told the ABC from the back of a police van.
After being detained, she was driven around in a car for about four hours.
"And they were about to put me in male lock up and then they turned me away - no one knows what to do with me," she said.
"I'm pretty scared."
She said the local embassy only recommended that she seek help from a lawyer and that the Australian government only appeared interested in its trade relationship.
"I was under the impressions that embassies were in countries to help citizens in times of difficulty," she said.
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