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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates issued a new law toughening penalties for cyber crimes to include jail terms for anyone who calls for regime change or mocks its rulers, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Under the new law, which annuls one issued in 2006, the spreading of any material that calls for “toppling, changing the regime or seizing power” is punishable by a prison sentence, Emarat Alyoum reported, citing the text.
The law gives the judicial authorities the same powers to punish “calls to disobey the principles of the political system” in the Gulf country, a federation of sheikhdoms. Although oil-rich UAE has been spared the wave of uprisings that hit most Arab countries, the authorities have clamped down on Islamists and claimed in July to have dismantled a group plotting against state security.
Several of those arrested had been active on online social media networks. Also under the new law, anyone convicted of “creating or running websites that deride or damage the reputation or stature of the country and its rulers will face a minimum jail sentence of three years,” said The National, an English-Language daily.
Under the new law, which annuls one issued in 2006, the spreading of any material that calls for “toppling, changing the regime or seizing power” is punishable by a prison sentence, Emarat Alyoum reported, citing the text.
The law gives the judicial authorities the same powers to punish “calls to disobey the principles of the political system” in the Gulf country, a federation of sheikhdoms. Although oil-rich UAE has been spared the wave of uprisings that hit most Arab countries, the authorities have clamped down on Islamists and claimed in July to have dismantled a group plotting against state security.
Several of those arrested had been active on online social media networks. Also under the new law, anyone convicted of “creating or running websites that deride or damage the reputation or stature of the country and its rulers will face a minimum jail sentence of three years,” said The National, an English-Language daily.
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