Emirates News Agency – Public Prosecutor: A fine for anyone who made illegal content available and refused to remove it

ABU DHABI, 7 May / WAM / The Public Prosecutor clarified through a film material, which he published today on his social media accounts, the crime of providing illegal content and refraining from removing it.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that according to Article 53 of Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 on combating rumors and cybercrime, which stipulates that anyone who uses the website must be punished with a fine of at least 300,000 / 300,000 dirhams and no more end /10.000.000/ ti million dirham. Or an electronic account to commit any of the following acts: 1. The storage, making available or publication of illegal content and he did not take the initiative to remove it or prevent access to this content within the time limit specified in the orders issued to him and laid down in this Decree-Law.

2. Refuses in whole or in part to comply with any of the orders given to him and provided for in this Decree-Law, without an acceptable excuse.

The dissemination of this information comes within the framework of the Public Prosecutor’s ongoing campaign to strengthen the legal culture among members of society, publish all the new and updated legislation in the country and increase public awareness of the law, with a view to spreading the legal culture as way of life.

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