Up to imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 dirhams
The Rumors Act has tightened the penalty for false accusations on social media
Youssef Al-Sharif: “Slander in law, its exact meaning differs from it in Islamic law to some extent.”
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Legal Adviser Dr. Youssef Al-Sharif warned individuals against rushing to direct abusive comments, false accusations, and insulting and slanderous terms to others, through social media, noting that the Rumors and Cybercrime Law tightened the penalty for insult and slander, with imprisonment and a fine of up to half a million dirhams.
Al-Sharif said that slander in law, its precise meaning differs from it in Islamic law to some extent, because slander in Sharia, is another accusation of adultery, or denying his lineage from his father, such as when one of them says to the other “Oh bin haram”, or accuses him personally, such as To say to him, “You are all your children are forbidden children, or you do not have honor, every day with the unity of the forbidden,” and this same applies if it is directed at a woman.
Al-Sharif defined, in the episodes broadcast by "Emirates Today", on the law of rumors and cybercrime, defamation in the law as attaching an accusation in general to a specific person, if there is evidence for it, and the attribution to it is correct, which means that it is not a condition that it be an accusation of honor, but extends to Anything that affects honor, such as when one of them says to the other, “You are a bribe, or a thief,” and he has no evidence for this, is considered slander.
And he indicated that insulting is any word or adjective that exposes the other to humiliation, or its purpose is to belittle, and its purpose is to degrade his dignity, such as for one of them to liken the other to a specific animal, or to call him an adjective in which he is contemptuous and underestimating his person, such as a human being who has value and respect, or he says to him, for example, “You Harami,” absolutely, without specifying a position or reason.
Al-Sharif pointed out that the crimes of insult and slander have moved from the ground to modern means and new technology, and it has become easy for anyone to insult or slander the other, from a distance, through various social media.
He pointed out that the Law of Rumors and Cybercrime, in Article (43), criminalizes such behavior, specifying a penalty of imprisonment, a fine of no less than 250 thousand dirhams, and not more than 500 thousand dirhams, or one of these two penalties, whoever insults others, or Assign him a fact that would make him subject to punishment or contempt by others, by using a computer network, an information technology means, or an information system.
He drew attention to noting that the legislator in cybercrime is more strict than is the case in normal reality, and this purpose is to reduce the idleness that occurs between users, and to regulate this human relationship between them, which is spread behind the walls of technology.
And in the second paragraph of this article, it was decided that if one of the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of this article occurred against a public official or a person charged with a public service on the occasion or because of the performance of his work, that is considered an aggravating circumstance of the crime.
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