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The Dubai Court of Appeal sentenced a 23-year-old Asian to three months in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams after convicting him of possessing pornographic materials for a juvenile under the age of 18, a video clip of a child with a young woman, in addition to re-publishing and sending the clip to other people via an app. "What's Up".

The court of first instance in presence decided to punish the accused with a fine of 5000 dirhams and confiscate the seized items, but the ruling was not accepted by the Public Prosecution in Dubai, so she appealed against him before the Court of Appeal, calling her appeal to the error of the court of first degree in applying the law, given its implementation of the mitigating excuse and its contentment with the fine, contrary to the requirements The Law on Combating Information Technology Crimes and its amendments stipulate that the penalty for this accusation is imprisonment for a period of no less than one year and a fine of no less than 20,000 dirhams.

In the session set for the consideration of the appeal, the accused attended and denied the first charge, which is possession of pornographic materials, and admitted the charge of sending it back. The Court of Appeal held that the judgment of the Court of First Instance contained the grounds for conviction in the presence of evidence derived from the confession of the accused before the Criminal Court and the investigations of the Public Prosecution and other evidence confirming his conviction. And make her turn away from his denial.

She emphasized that the appealed verdict, even if it was correct in convicting the accused, erred in applying the law when I used the mitigating excuse, and decided the fine only, ignoring the application of the law that requires the accused to be punished by imprisonment and a fine together, according to Federal Law No. 5 of 2012 regarding combating information technology crimes and its amendments for the year 2012. 2018,

The Court of Appeal held that given the circumstances in which the crime was committed, it believed that the accused would not break the law again, so it decided to punish the accused with three months' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 dirhams.

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