"Comten" leads its owner to the merits .. Learn the punishment for insulting crimes and electronic slander

A prison and thousands of pounds may be waiting for you as a result of a comment for you "Comment" on social media from behind the screen of your mobile device or your computer that makes fun of a person or attributes it, the punishment for everyone who throws an individual, that is what was applied in the actress Yasmine Sabry's incident that filed a lawsuitAgainst one of the followers, it is required to pay a compensation of 100 million pounds.

The ruling of the Alexandria Court came to fined Ayman Ibrahim Ahmed, who is accused of bullying against the artist with a year imprisonment with work, guarantee 10 thousand pounds, a fine of 20 thousand pounds, and the referral of the civil lawsuit to the competent court.

Yasmine was not the first artist to file a lawsuit against one of the followers. The artist Amr Wahba recently announced that he had taken a legal action, through the Internet Investigations against one of his followers, and he directed him to one of his publications, on the social networking site Facebook, and "Wahba" expressed his anger through a publication via Facebook, so he wrote that he was overwhelming his right, and trying to fade negative comments, but this time he decided to deviate from his silence, stressing that he would resort to taking his right to the law, through the Internet Investigations, and asked the person who insulted him not to wipe the comment, because he has all the evidence for insulting He will present it to the police, and also asked him not to resort to one of his family, because he will not back down from submitting the communication.

The penalty for insulting and slandering crimes via the Internet, according to what Mahmoud Bassiouni, the lawyer, mentioned the high appeal, is the obligatory imprisonment for a period of no more than 3 years and a fine of up to 200 thousand for everyone who insults or uses outward words for the purpose of defamation, as well as material compensation that reaches one million pounds the victim deserves.

He stressed that there are several conditions that must be met to submit a report of insults and slander on social media, most notably, the presence of "lasreen shot" that includes the perpetrator’s words to the victim, the presence of a copy of the perpetrator’s page, as wellThese conditions can edit a record of insults and slander on the Internet, explaining that the complaint is not accepted three months after the day of the victim’s knowledge of the crime and its commitment unless the law stipulates otherwise..

He added that insulting and slandering "Social Media" represents a group of crimes punishable by law, because the Egyptian legislator deals with the matter of using advanced technology to direct insults, as multiple crimes, which is a crime of insulting, another crime of defamation, as well as the crime of abuse of technology, and also a crimeI deliberately offend by publishing, noting that after proving this, a report is edited, then the matter is referred to the Public Prosecution or the Economic Court, as this matter aims to insult and reduce dignity, which requires punishment.

It is worth noting that, according to the text of Article 303 of the Penal Code: “The defamation is punished with a fine of no less than five thousand pounds and not more than fifteen thousand pounds.” Regarding the crime of insulting, Article 306 stipulates that every insult does not include a specific assignment, but rather includesA scratch of honor or consideration is punishable in the cases shown in Article 171 fine of no less than two thousand pounds and no more than ten thousand pounds..

Article 308 of the same law showed the cases in which he is sentenced to a strict penalty for the accused in the crimes of insulting or defamation by stipulating that if the defect, insult, defamation, or insults that were committed in one of the methods indicated in Article 171 are stabbed in the offer of individuals or scratching the reputation of the familiesThe penalty is imprisonment and the fine together, provided that the fine in the case of publication in one of the newspapers or publications is not less than half of the maximum, and the imprisonment is not less than six months..