It includes sharing offensive pictures and cartoons on “social media.”
Imprisonment and a fine of one million dirhams is a penalty for publishing materials offensive to the state
The Rumors Law tightened the penalty for endangering state security and interests.
archival
The Legal Counsel, Dr. Youssef Al-Sharif, warned users of social networking programs and sites against publishing and exchanging photos, caricatures, and offensive videos that undermine the prestige of the state, as well as appealing or inciting against policemen, members of the judiciary or their assistants, or anyone who takes the status of a police officer. The court carries a penalty of up to imprisonment and a fine of up to one million dirhams.
Al-Sharif said that Article (23) of the Rumors Law stipulates a penalty of temporary imprisonment and a fine of not more than one million dirhams, for anyone who establishes or manages a website, or supervises it, or uses information on the information network, or an information technology means, with the intention of inciting against Acts, publishing or broadcasting information, news, cartoons or any other images, that would endanger the security of the state and its higher interests, or prejudice public order, or attack the judicial police or any of those charged with implementing the provisions of the laws.
He stressed, in episodes broadcast by "Emirates Today" on its platforms, to shed light on the newly issued laws, that in the UAE we are able to preserve what the founders of the state built, and what the leadership has preserved.
He said that laws are prepared and legislated to confront current phenomena or events, or whether they have taken place or are expected to happen, so what is happening is enacted by legislation, exposed to all its events, which need to be confronted and repelled. Or in certain matters that had taken place and faced by the people of her time at that time, and that circulated among the members of society, so it became necessary to be careful of them, and to prevent them from continuing or going too far.
Al-Sharif pointed out that “the Rumors Law No. 34/2021 deals in its texts with images that we hardly hear about in our country, but it is necessary to develop its hypotheses, in order to be a deterrent before it occurs,” adding that the issuance of any legal text is not with the stroke of a pen, as some expect. Rather, it is a process that passes through stages, including studying the need for it, then drafting it, presenting it to the Council of Ministers, and transferring it to the National Council. Then report activated.
He pointed out that, “Based on that, when reading some of these articles, we tell ourselves that they are far from us, and we always ask God to keep us away from evil, but it is our duty to explain all the texts, so that we can stand on their content and content.”
Follow our latest local and sports news and the latest political and economic developments via Google news