Abu Dhabi Police has warned the public not to harm public morals by publishing or circulating passages containing behaviors or phrases that would put perpetrators under the law, calling for the positive use of social media sites.
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Suhail Al Rashidi, Director of Criminal Security at Abu Dhabi Police, called on social media users to be responsible and to take into account the public morals in media materials and videos published through their accounts because of their impact on a large segment of society.
He stressed that the state legislation addressed all practices that constitute acts that violate public morals through the use of modern technology and social networking sites, pointing out that such actions put the perpetrator under the law and that lack of awareness and knowledge of such matters, and disregard for them may place other people under legal accountability.
Brig. Gen. Imran Ahmed Al Mazrouei, Director of the Criminal Investigation and Investigation Directorate in the Criminal Security Sector at Abu Dhabi Police, said that the misuse of modern communication technologies is contrary to the values and customs of the UAE, which is keen to establish its national identity and pride in its noble heritage and values, as it is one of the first countries to issue complete laws in this regard.
The federal legislator has criminalized public morals through social media, as article (17) of the decree provides for a federal law on combating it crimes by imprisonment and a fine of at least 250,000 dirhams, and does not exceed 500,000 dirhams or one of these penalties, anyone who has created, supervised, supervised, broadcast, transmitted, published or republished through the information network materials and all that would prejudice public morals.
