“Dungor” was imprisoned for 9 months and deported

The State Security Court ruled to punish (RA), who holds the nationality of an Arab country and whose nickname is “Dangor,” to nine months’ imprisonment with deportation, after the use of clemency, on charges of promoting a video clip on YouTube and BlackBerry devices, which caused a state of terror. Panic among citizens, and the court decided to confiscate the devices, programs or means used to commit the crime.

The details of the case go back to when the Public Prosecution referred the accused for broadcasting a video clip via modern means of communication (BlackBerry phones) that included a threat and a warning to anyone who tried to attack some of the groups related to him. The clip also included a young man being beaten, then a picture of a person with his face covered in blood, along with a clip. An audio recording between a person and the mother of the young man who was beaten issuing a warning to anyone who tries to attack the accused and his group.

Music clip

The clip was prepared in the form of a song with rap music, and this clip aroused the ire of public opinion, and caused a state of panic, fear, and panic among various segments of society. The incident captured significant public attention and condemnation from many. They contacted the police directly, requesting an urgent response to this young man, and constructive action. Accordingly, a search and investigation team was formed that was able to identify the accused, as the source of these consignments, and after permission from the Public Prosecution, he was arrested and his father’s residence was searched, and he was arrested. Computers, CDs, bladed weapons, necklaces and chains.

The accused stated in the investigations that he formed the “DMY” rap group alongside his official work, and that he had previously held “rap” concerts in the emirates of Dubai and Fujairah. As for the clip that was circulated on the “BlackBerry” device, the accused admitted that it was him. He quoted it from a video published on YouTube called “MIRDIF” and made some changes to it, which he called “dubbing,” using his computer. He did that on his own, then downloaded the dubbed clip on his website. On YouTube, he broadcast it publicly on the phone of a friend of his from Khor Fakkan.

The accused denied knowing the person whose face was covered in blood in the video, nor the group that was violently assaulting him, and that he took these scenes from YouTube, only added writing to them, and he personally intervened in the voice with his sister, who played the role of the mother of that violent young man, and the intention of that was to produce a “rap” song. » Without any other intention, he did not intend to spread terror and panic in society, admitting that he personally became known as “Dungor” from the word “Danger”, meaning dangerous.

CD

The General Department of Forensic Evidence and Criminology emptied the seized CD, and it included a picture in which people are seen violently assaulting a person, and the picture was written, “Here will be the fate of every one who curses or claims a danjur,” and another picture shows the face of a young man covered in blood, and the picture was written, “By God.” “I will torture him like I tortured others.” The laboratory also proved that the man’s fixed voice in the audio material recorded in the video clip is the voice of the accused. While the accused’s father stated that his accused son had been nicknamed “Dangor” for more than five years, and that he was not among the young men who assaulted a person in the picture, in that he recognized the voice of his son and his 21-year-old daughter, as she told him that she was the one who She participated in that video at the request of her brother, adding that his accused son had previously been stabbed with a knife in Dubai about six months ago.

The Public Prosecution decided to refer him to trial, charging him with two charges. The first is that he openly used an information technology means to broadcast inflammatory propaganda to the general public by publishing a video clip that contained phrases and threats, using sharp blades and other weapons that would spread terror and disturb public security in such a way. shown in the papers. Secondly, he used the information technology network by publishing the clip described in the first charge, which would endanger the security of the state and harm public order, and requested the imposition of the maximum penalty prescribed by law. The accused and confiscate the seized items related to the crime.

The accused said before the court, “What is in the video clip is an act, and I did not intend to incite terror and fear, and everything that was raised in the video clip was for entertainment and song.” His lawyer confirmed that he did not intend to spread terror and panic among people, and he requested a ruling to acquit the accused of what was attributed to him, and as a precaution to use the maximum Degrees of clemency, mitigating excuses, and the duration of his detention is sufficient. The court explained in the merits of its ruling that, according to Article 198 bis: Anyone who intentionally broadcasts false or tendentious news, data, or rumors, or broadcasts provocative propaganda, shall be punished with imprisonment, if that would disturb public security, spread terror among people, or harm the public interest. It stipulated Article 20 of Law No. (2) of 2006: Anyone who creates a website or publishes information on the information network or any information technology means for any group calling for facilitating Promoting programs and ideas that would disturb public order and public morals shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years.

It rejected the accused’s denial of his intention to instill terror in the hearts of people, noting that his confession was that he deliberately used an information technology method (YouTube) to produce a video clip through dubbing and his personal intervention to add phrases (to the original quoted image) containing a threat and a threat to assault anyone who spoke with severe violence. It is the exposure of his group, his band, that he formed, and it shows a picture of people assaulting a young man. That young man was shown with blood on his face, with the addition of the above threats to give the impression that “Dungor” By that he meant himself. He was the one who did that to the young man in order to create an aura for himself that would frighten people and spread panic and fear in their hearts about him and his oppression. All of that contradicts his denial of his intention to instill terror in people, which is what makes the court turn away from that denial and consider it merely an attempt to evade the consequences of his actions.

She added that what the accused committed was creating a new website on “YouTube” on the Internet, in which he broadcast the video clip that he produced in the manner described above to promote ideas that would disturb public morals and public order by spreading fear and panic among people. The police report highlights the severity of the panic and terror that befell the citizens who This clip was imposed on them on their BlackBerry mobile phones to the point that they filed complaints with the police, providing him with the material and moral elements of the two indictment crimes, which requires him to be punished in order to that.