The Federal Prosecution for Information Technology Crimes ordered the imprisonment of a media person and the release of others with a guarantee after conducting an investigation, accusing them that while they were covering the match of the UAE and Iraq national teams last week on Abu Dhabi Sports Channel in the trial period before broadcasting live on the air, they came with an act and a statement that would violate morals. The public, and they published through the information network what would prejudice public morals, and broadcast sensational advertisements that would harm the public interest, and provoked hate speech, crimes whose punishment ranges from imprisonment for a period of no less than five years and a fine of no less than 500 thousand dirhams, and between Imprisonment and a fine not exceeding 50 thousand dirhams.
After the Public Prosecution received a complaint from the Abu Dhabi Media Company against the aforementioned and an unknown one, following the circulation of video clips on some social networking sites, the accused, in audio and video, exchanged conversations among themselves during the period of experimenting with technical devices before the live media appearance on Abu Dhabi sports channels and in the analytical studio segment of a match The UAE national football team and the Republic of Iraq national football team, and their utterance of the aforementioned words and phrases harms the public interest of the state, and that the broadcast sent from the broadcast vehicle of the analytical studio to the broadcast reception unit in the TV building was hacked, and the published clips were seized and broadcast on accounts on some social networking sites on the network. Internet.
After the Public Prosecution began investigating the accused and took its previous decisions, and ordered the summoning of those responsible for Abu Dhabi sports channels and programs to complete the investigations, it also assigned the responsible technical authorities to determine how the breach occurred, who carried it out, seized it and the tools he used, and investigations into the incident are still ongoing.
For its part, Abu Dhabi Media Company terminated the services of the three media professionals as a disciplinary penalty for violating the media code of honor, the ethics of the media profession and the job duties of the profession.
The State Prosecutor is following up the investigations.
