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A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Ten
Article 15: Anyone who uses computer or telecommunication systems or data carriers and storage devices to perpetrate the following activities, will receive the appropriate punishments described below: A) If, in his efforts to make some “explicitly obscene” content available to other users, the perpetrator encourages, tempts and allures the users, or deceives, threatens and intimidates […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Nine
Article 13: “Anyone who, without any legal permit and license, uses computer and telecommunication systems in order to enter, alter, delete or distort computer data, so as to obtain financial benefits and further certain personal interests, either for himself or for a third party, will be ordered to return the properties of others to them, […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Eight
The Punishment: There are two types of punishments for this crime and these are applicable in three ways: 1. The punishment of this crime could be imprisonment from one year to five years. 2. The punishment of this crime could be fine from 20 million rials up to 100 million rials. According to Article 54 […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Seven
The Punishment: There are two types of punishments for this crime and these are applicable in three ways: 1. The punishment of this crime could be imprisonment from one year to five years. 2. The punishment of this crime could be fine from 20 million rials up to 100 million rials. According to Article 54 […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Six
Article 5: “If the governmental officials, who are responsible for protecting secret data (as determined by Article 3 of these laws) or the related systems and have received appropriate training for this and the data or computer systems have been left in their control, may provide the access to the data for some unauthorized individuals […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Five
Article 3: “Anyone who unlawfully commits the following actions in relation to confidential and classified data which are in transition and traffic electronically, or are stored and saved – by computer and telecommunication systems or data storage devices, will be punished in manners determined by the law: A- The punishment of accessing the above-mentioned data […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Four
Article 2: “Anyone who illegally eavesdrops on the traffic of non-public content in the computer or telecommunications systems or electromagnetic waves and fibre optics, will be sentenced to between six months and two years of imprisonment or to the payment of a fine between 10 million and 40 million rials, or both of the punishments” […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law: Section Three
Article 1: “Anyone who gains illegal access to data, computers and telecommunication systems, which are protected by security measures, can be punished by imprisonment terms ranging between 91 days and one year, or the payment of a fine between five million rials [Equivalent approximately to 150 US dollars] to 20 million rials [around 600 […]
A simplified legal analysis of the Cyber Crimes Law- Second Section
The Cyber Crimes Law does not provide a clear definition of these criminal acts, and the legislators have merely given a few examples and instances of computer-related criminal activities, and have then determined the appropriate punishments for them. Before going into each of the individual articles of this law, and subjecting them to legal analysis […]
