MUSCAT: The Number one Court docket of Muscat (Legal Circle) convicted the 3 defendants for committing the misdemeanour of the usage of knowledge era (IT) to insult others, punishable beneath Article 16 of the Legislation on Preventing Cybercrimes.
The Public Prosecution’s investigations published that the primary and 2nd defendants printed a video clip on social media, which incorporated an insult to one of the vital applicants within the 10th Majlis Ash’shura elections and puzzled his eligibility and talent to accomplish his tasks as a council member in a fashion that broken his popularity and standing.
Letters exchanged between the second one and 3rd defendants have been exposed, together with an settlement to shop for votes from electorate in favour of the second one defendant, to undermine the integrity of the electoral procedure and the liberty of vote casting.
After concluding the investigations, the suspects have been referred to the competent courtroom. The consequences come with 12 months’s imprisonment and a high quality of RO1,000, with a keep of execution of the rest of the jail sentence for the primary defendant, with just one month to be served.
