Saudi Arabia: 5 years in prison and a fine of 3 million riyals for “social pranks”

The Saudi Public Prosecution warned once morest producing, preparing, sending or storing anything that would prejudice public order, religious values, public morals, or the sanctity of private life, through the information network, or a computer, according to “Okaz”. .

She explained that the perpetrator is liable to imprisonment for a period of up to 5 years, and a fine of up to 3 million riyals, or one of these two penalties.

The Public Prosecution warned once morest any practices or behaviors involving the misuse of smartphones, violating the privacy of workplaces by depicting others, defaming or harming them, or violating public morals, or publishing any of that using various information technology means.

She explained that anyone who commits a crime of violating private life by using mobile phones equipped with a camera or the like, or defaming or harming others, will be punished with imprisonment for a period of up to one year and a fine of up to half a million riyals.

The system for combating cybercrime stipulates that anyone who affects private life shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year and a fine of up to 500,000 riyals, or one of these two penalties. , using harmful pranks, and the penalties range from the offense committed once morest the victim, in the event of unintentional death, up to payment of blood money and imprisonment, and this is due to the judiciary and punishment.

With regard to the litigation mechanism, the aggrieved person has the right to resort to the judiciary and claim compensation by filing a lawsuit in which he explains that he was harmed by these pranks and proves the availability of the elements of a claim for compensation for damage from the act of damage and the causal relationship and the damage to prove his damage and file his case to the competent judicial authority, and provide his evidence for the harmful act and on The harm and the establishment of the causal relationship between the act and the harm and the person who carried out the harmful act and file a lawsuit once morest the person who carried out the dangerous prank and demand the appropriate compensation for the extent of the harm before the judiciary to redress the harm.