The State Public Prosecution, through an educational film article published today on its accounts on social networking sites, warned against the crime of disseminating information for trafficking or promoting drugs, as part of its efforts to contribute to supporting the specialized agencies in the state to address this scourge by educating the public about the risks of this crime, In order to preserve youth and to enhance the security and stability of society, to create a drug-free environment.
The Public Prosecution clarified what was stipulated in Federal Law No. 14 of 1995 in the matter of combating narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, which criminalized possession with the intention of trafficking and promoting narcotic drugs and stimulants, and its punishment amounted to death. The UAE legislator also addressed in Federal Decree Law No. 5 of 2012 in the matter of combating crimes Information technology Dissemination of any information for the trafficking or promotion of drugs through the means of information technology, by stating in Article (36) a crime for everyone who creates or runs a website or supervises it or publishes information on the information network, or an information technology medium, for trafficking or promoting drugs or influences The mentality and what is in it or how to take it or to facilitate dealing with it in cases other than those legally authorized, and decided the penalty for that act with temporary imprisonment and a fine of not less than five hundred thousand dirhams and not exceeding one million dirhams or one of these two penalties.