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Lawyer and Legal Counsel Mahmoud Al-Thamali: Penalties for violators of mobile phone use in schools

Updated: May 2, 2022



Lawyer and legal advisor Mahmoud Adel Al-Thamali warned the parents of male and female students against the wrong uses of smart phones inside the school, which may expose them to legal accountability.

According to what lawyer Mahmoud Al-Thamali explained to Al-Wi’am, the wrong use of smartphones inside the school corridors by photographing male and female students for their teachers and also photographing their fellow students without their consent and publishing it may cause them to legal punishment, which is estimated to be imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or 500,000 riyals fine or with both penalties This is in accordance with Royal Decree No. M/17 dated 08/03/1428 AH.

Al-Thumali said that this punishment came to preserve privacy and not to prejudice people's private lives, as well as to protect society from blackmail, defamation and harm to them.

Al-Thumali went on to talk to Al-Wiam that the wrong use of smartphones is not limited to photography and publishing, but also illegal entry to websites, which are criminalized in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

He added that many believe that the law does not apply to anyone who was a juvenile, i.e. less than 15 years old, when he may be placed under social control in his natural environment for a period not exceeding two years. and obligating him to perform certain duties for a period not exceeding three years, and the penalty may reach his placement in a social institution for a period not exceeding one year, provided that he is completed (12) years of age at the time of committing the punishable act. His actions are punishable, and the prescribed penalties are applied to him, except for the prison sentence. He is punished by depositing in the home for a period not exceeding half the maximum penalty prescribed for that act and without being bound by the minimum penalty for that act.



source https://www.alweeam.com.sa/790869/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84/


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