(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution ordered the detention of four persons on charge of tribal instigation and libelling through Twitter. Three Emirati men and a Palestinian women will stay in prison for 14 days pending investigations.
The incident dated back to last April with a heated discussion between the Palestinian woman and the three Emirati men. The discussion got further hot and turned into trading of insults and offences and a tribal instigation and accusation. A member of one tribe whose name was targeted in the heated disparagement made a complaint with the Public Prosecution against the woman.
The four defendants were detained for two weeks to complete investigations. Commenting on the arrest, an official from the office of Abu Dhabi Attorney General said some people took such types of behaviour lightly.
"Some people do not understand the grave consequences of their conducts on social networking sites or over the Internet in general. Such actions like libelling and instigation are completely outlawed whether committed in the real world or the virtual one. This is especially true for those who think that it will be difficult for authorities to detect them," he said.
"That is completely untrue. Detecting those who make such actions, like stealing e-mail addresses, is extremely easy and quickly task. There are no problems facing authorities in combating such conducts. Moreover, ignorance of laws is not at all a waiver of legal responsibility," he added.
The official stressed that no one can get with his or her cybercrime and that penalties can reach three years of imprisonment.
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