Public Prosecution: Modifying photos of others with intent to offend is a crime

The Public Prosecution Office of the State, through a film material published on Thursday on its social media accounts, clarified the penalty for modifying the photos of others with the intent of insulting and defaming. She pointed out that in accordance with Article 44, paragraph 2 of Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 in the fight against rumors and cybercrime, a penalty of imprisonment for a period of no less than one year, and a fine of no less than 250 thousand dirhams, and not more than 500 thousand dirhams, or one of them, each Whoever uses an electronic information system, or an information technology means, to make any modification or processing to a recording, image or scene, with the intent of defaming or offending another person. The dissemination of this information comes within the framework of the State Public Prosecution’s ongoing campaign to enhance the legal culture among members of society, publish all new and updated legislation in the country, and raise the level of public awareness of the law, to spread the culture of law as a way of life.