UAE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT SUPPORTED DECISION ON TIGHTENING PUNISHMENT FOR ROUGHNESS AND INSURANCE IN WHATSAPP.
In particular, the size of the fine can be increased to 250 thousand dirhams (US $ 68.3 thousand). In addition, this online crime can be punished with a real prison term, and for non-citizens of the UAE also deportation from the country. Earlier, the UAE Federal Supreme Court upheld the prosecutor’s demand, according to which an accused of insulting a colleague in WhatsApp would have to pay 250 thousand dirhams instead of three thousand, as the court of first instance had previously ruled.
