Crimes and Penalties Law — articles 101–200

If the court finds in a misdemeanour that the circumstances of the crime or the perpetrator call for clemency, it may reduce the penalty prescribed as stated the preceding Article.

If, in the case of a misdemeanour, there is an extenuating circumstance and an extenuating excuse at the same time, the court may grant the accused judicial pardon.

Taking into account the cases in which the law stipulates specific reasons for aggravation, the following shall be deemed as aggravating circumstances: 1. Committing the crime for a vile motive. 2. Committing the crime u…

If there is an aggravating circumstance in the crime, the court may impose the penalty as follows: 1.If the penalty originally prescribed for the crime is a fine, its maximum limit may be doubled, or incarceration shall …

If a crime, not punishable by a fine, is committed with the motive of making profit, the perpetrator may be punished, in addition to the penalty originally prescribed for the crime, by imposing a fine not exceeding the a…

If there are both aggravating circumstances and extenuating excuses or circumstances in one crime, the court shall apply first the aggravating circumstances, then the extenuating excuses and finally the extenuating circu…

Any of the following shall be deemed as recidivist: 1. Any person adjudged by a final judgment in a felony and commits a crime thereafter. 2. Any person adjudged by a final judgment of imprisonment for (6) six months or …

If the recidivist had previously been sentenced to two freedom-restricting penalties, both for at least one year, or to three freedom-restricting penalties, among which one for at least one year, for having committed or …

The court may impose, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article, on whomever commits a misdemeanour from amongst those stated therein after he had been previously convicted for one of the crimes stated i…

Criminal measures are either restrictive of freedom, depriving of rights, or material.

Freedom-restricting measures are: 1. Prohibiting visits to certain public places. 2. Prohibiting residing in a certain place. 3. Probation. 4. Community service. 5. Deportation from the State.

The court may prohibit the convict for a period not less than one year and not exceeding (5) five years from visiting the public places it specifies, if the crime has been committed under the influence of an intoxicating…

The prohibition to reside in a specific place is to deprive the convict, after his release and for a period of at least one year and at most (5) five years, of residing in said place or of visiting the places determined …

If a person is sentenced to death or life imprisonment and special pardon is issued forfeiting all or part of the penalty or replacing it by a milder penalty, the Public Prosecution must refer the matter to the court who…

The court which has issued the judgment may, upon the request of the Public Prosecution or the convict, reduce the period adjudged according to the preceding Articles, exempt the convict from the remaining period or chan…

Probation means obligating a convict to comply with all or some of the following restrictions, according to what is the determined by the judgment: 1. Not to change his place of residence, without the approval of the com…

If a person is sentenced to death or life imprisonment and special pardon is issued forfeiting all or part of the penalty or replacing it by a milder penalty, he shall by force of the law and for a period of (5) five yea…

If a person is sentenced to life or temporary imprisonment for a crime against the external or internal security of the State, he shall be put under probation for a period not exceeding (5) five years. When imposing, in …

The period of probation shall start as of the date specified by the judgment for its execution, and in case of impossibility to enforce it, the date specified for its expiry shall not be extended.

The Public Prosecution shall supervise the execution of probation by virtue of periodical reports to be submitted thereto every (3) three months at least, by the competent administrative authority with respect to the con…

Community service is to obligate the convict to perform community service work, as specified by a Cabinet resolution, in any of the institutions or establishments which are designated by a resolution issued by the Minist…

The community service shall be performed in the entity or entities that the Public Prosecutor or his deputy chooses as per the resolution referred to in Article (121) of this Law, in coordination with said entity or enti…

The entity in which the community service is performed shall submit a detailed report to the Public Prosecution on the convict's performance, discipline and behaviour and the extent to which he is committed to perform th…

If the convict fails to meet the requirements of the performance of the community service, the court may, at the request of the Public Prosecution, apply the penalty of incarceration for a period identical to the communi…

The community service shall be subject to the provisions of the Federal Criminal Procedure Law.

If a foreigner is sentenced to a freedom-restricting penalty in a felony, he shall be deported from the State. If a foreigner is sentenced to a freedom-restricting penalty in a misdemeanour, the court may order to deport…

Measures depriving rights and material measures are: 1. Forfeiture of tutorship, guardianship, curatorship or proxy relating to the absentee. 2. Prohibition to carry out a specific job. 3. Withdrawal of driving license. …

Forfeiture of tutorship, guardianship, curatorship or proxy relating to an absentee, is to deprive the convict of exercising such power, whether it concerns the person or the funds. Forfeiture shall be for the period det…

If the tutor, guardian, curator or proxy of an absent is convicted for a crime which he has committed in violation of the duties of his authority, the court may order the forfeiture of his tutorship, guardianship, curato…

Prohibition to carry out a job is the deprivation of the right to practise a profession, a craft or an industrial or commercial activity of which practice requires a licence from the public service authority.

If a person breaches the duties of his profession, craft, industrial or commercial activity and is sentenced for such violation to a penalty restricting his freedom for at least (6) six months, the court may prohibit him…

Withdrawal of the driving licence shall result in suspending all effects of the licence previously granted to the convict during the period fixed by the court which shall not be less than (3) three months or more than (2…

With the exception of the special cases in which the law stipulates closure, the court may, upon prohibiting a person from practising his work according to the provisions of Article (131) of this Law, order that the clos…

1. The measures stipulated in this Chapter may not be imposed on any person unless the commission of a crime thereby prescribed by law is established, and the person’s condition necessitates the application of such measu…

Subject to the provisions of Article (124) of this Law, any violation of the provisions of the sentence of a criminal measure shall be punished by incarceration for a period not exceeding one year or by a fine not exceed…

Measures stipulated in this Section may not be subject to stay of execution.

Except for the measure of deportation, the court may, upon the request of the concerned party or the Public Prosecution, order the termination of a measure which it had previously ordered from amongst those stipulated in…

If the act constituting a crime is committed by a person in a state of insanity or mental deficiency or psychological disease that made him completely incapable to control his actions, the court shall order to place him …

When there is recidivism, according to either of Articles (108) or (109), the court may, in lieu of imposing the penalty prescribed therefor, decide to deem the recidivist as a habitual criminal, and order, in such a cas…

A person shall constitute a social danger if he suffers insanity, mental deficiency or psychological disease which makes him incapable to control his actions, in such a way that endangers his own safety or the safety of …

Measures of social defence are: 1.Placement in a therapeutical shelter; 2.Placement in any of the Labour Establishments. 3.Probation. 4.Obligation to reside in home of origin.

The person sentenced to placement in a therapeutical shelter shall be sent to a health institution designated for that purpose, where he shall receive the due care required by his condition. Health institutions shall be …

In the case where the law requires the placement of the convict in any of the Labour Establishments, the court shall rule the same with no need to specify the period of placement in its judgment. The administrators of su…

The provisions of Article (116) shall apply to the probation stipulated in this Part, provided that the probation period shall not exceed (3) three years.

Obligation to reside in home of origin is to send the individual back to his home where he was residing before he moved to the place where it was proved that he constitutes social danger, for a period not less than (6) s…

In the event violating the measures provisions stipulated in this Part,, the court may order extension of the measure for a period not exceeding half of the period previously adjudged.

Measures of social defence may not be subject to stay of execution.

General pardon for a certain crime or certain crimes shall be issued by virtue of a law and it entails the forfeiture of the criminal action or the deletion of the conviction judgment issued thereon, and deeming such cri…

If a law is promulgated granting general pardon for part of the penalties imposed, it shall be considered a special pardon and the provisions stipulated for the latter shall apply thereto.

The special pardon shall be granted by virtue of decree that includes the forfeiture of all, or part of the penalty imposed by a Federal Judicial Authority, or the replacement thereof with a milder penalty prescribed by …

Forfeiture of the penalty or criminal measure by special pardon shall be considered as if executed.

In addition to the events stipulated by a special provision, the judge may pardon the perpetrator in misdemeanours, in any of the following events: 1. If the perpetrator has not completed (21) twenty-one years of age at …

The pardon, whatever its type, shall be without prejudice to the rights of the litigants or third parties.

Every citizen who, in any manner, joins the armed forces or security authorities of a country that is hostile to the State or at war therewith, or joins an armed force of a group that is hostile to the State or aims to p…

Any person who deliberately commits an act that leads to affecting the State's sovereignty, independence, unity or the integrity of its territories shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

Any person who carries arms against the State or attempts or instigates to do the same shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

The following shall be punished by death: 1. Anyone who interferes, for the interest of an enemy or a country or group that is hostile or aims to prejudice the security of the State, in a plan to shake the loyalty of the…

The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who facilitates to an enemy, a country or group that is hostile or aims to prejudice the security of the State, the entry to the State's territory, or gives them a part of its…

The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately helps an enemy, a country or group that is hostile or aims to prejudice the security of the State by transmitting information thereto or acting as guide there…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who knowingly helps or aids a prisoner of war, a detained enemy soldier, citizen or agent, or a member of a group that is hostile or aims to prejudice the security of the Stat…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant, entrusted with guarding a war prisoner or any of the enemy's detained citizens or agents, who deliberately facilitates their escape from detention. The penalty sh…

The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who seeks to collaborate with a foreign country or a group that is hostile or aims to prejudice the security of the State or anyone who works for their interest, or communicat…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who, during peace time, commits any of the following acts: 1. Seeking to collaborate with a foreign country, or anyone who works for its benefit or communicating with anyone o…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on any person who has been entrusted with negotiating with a foreign government or an international organization concerning any of the State's affairs, but deliberately conducts such ne…

Whoever requests, accepts, or takes for himself or for another person, even through an intermediary, from a foreign country or a group that aims to prejudice the security of the State or from anyone who works for its ben…

The death or life imprisonment penalty shall be imposed on anyone who delivers or discloses, in any manner or through any means, to a foreign country or a group that is hostile or aims to prejudice the security of the St…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on any public servant or any person entrusted with a public service, who discloses any of the State's defence secrets entrusted thereto. The penalty shall be death if the crime occurs d…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on: 1. Anyone who, through any unlawful means, seeks to obtain one of the State's defence secrets and does not intend to deliver or disclose it to a foreign country or a group that is h…

Life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately destroys, impairs or disrupts down a weapon, ship, airplane, equipment, establishment, means of transport, public utility, ammunition, supplies, medicines, or…

Whoever, personally or through an intermediary, during war time, whether directly or through another country, exports goods or products or other items from the State to a hostile country, or imports any such materials fr…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (10) ten years and not exceeding (25) twenty-five years and a fine equivalent to double the value of the act subject of the crime and not less than (1,000,000) one mil…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (10) ten years and not exceeding (25) twenty-five years shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately, during war time, fails to perform all or some of the obligations i…

If one of the acts stipulated in Articles (169) and (172) of this Chapter is caused by negligence or dereliction, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a period not less than (3) three years and not exceeding (5) five ye…

A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who deliberately commits any act against a foreign country which harms political relations or exposes the State's civilians, employees, funds or interests to the …

The death penalty shall be imposed on whoever, during war time, deliberately announces false or tendentious news, statements or rumours, or deliberately circulates inflammatory propaganda causing damage to the military p…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (6) six months and not exceeding (5) five years and/or a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on: 1. Anyone who flies over areas of t…

A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever publishes, announces, or delivers to a foreign country or any group seeking to prejudice the security of the State or to anyone working for their benefit, in any…

A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever collects, without authorization from the competent authority, information, data, objects, documents, designs, statistics, or others for the purpose of deliv…

The following shall be deemed secrets of the State's defence: 1. Military, political, economic, industrial, scientific and security information related to social security or other information known only, due to their nat…

If the perpetrator commits any of the crimes stipulated in Articles (162, 163/ Paragraph (1)/ Clause (1) and Paragraph (2), 165, 166, 175 and 177) of this Chapter with a foreign group or organization or any other entity …

The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who tries or attempts by force to overthrow or seize the government system.

The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who tries to commit acts of aggression against the safety of the President or against his freedom, or deliberately endangers his life or freedom. The same penalty shall be imp…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (15) fifteen years and not exceeding (25) twenty-five years and a fine shall be imposed on anyone who mocks, insults, or damages the reputation or dignity or position …

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding (5) five years and a fine not less than (500,000) five hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever mocks at or insults or damages the reputation or dignity or pos…

The penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who resorts to violence, threat or any other illicit means, in order to compel the President of the State to exercise or refrain from exercising any of the powe…

The penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who resorts to violence, threat or any other illicit means, in order to compel the prime minister, his deputy, any of the ministers, the Chairman of the Federal…

The death penalty shall be imposed on anyone who tries or attempts to commit or commit an act of aggression against the safety or freedom of the president of a foreign country. Legal action in crimes stipulated in this A…

The death penalty or life imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever establishes, founds, organizes, administers, leads or joins any association, entity, organization, formation, group, gang or any branch thereof, whatever…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (15) fifteen years and not exceeding (25) twenty-five years shall be imposed on whoever propagates verbally or in writing or in any other means, any of the acts stated…

The death penalty or life imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever establishes, founds, organizes, administers or joins any association, entity, organization, formation, group or gang or any branch thereof, whatever is t…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (5) five years shall be imposed on whoever collects, obtains or receives funds, directly or indirectly, from inside or outside the State, in order to achieve any of th…

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (5) five years shall be imposed on whoever engages in an activity for the purpose of teaching or providing guidance or training to implement the objectives stipulated …

A penalty of temporary imprisonment and a fine not less than (200,000) two hundred thousand AED, shall be imposed on whoever establishes, founds, organizes or manages a worship or religious teaching venue in the State wi…

A penalty of temporary imprisonment and a fine not less than (200,000) two hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on whoever establishes, founds, organizes or runs, without licence, an association entity or organization o…

In cases stated in Articles (188), (189), (190) and (193) of this Law, the court shall order the dissolution of the associations, entities, organizations or branches or venues mentioned therein, and the closure of their …

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than (10) ten years and a fine not exceeding (500,000) five hundred thousand AED shall be imposed on anyone who exploits religion to propagate verbally, by writing or any o…

A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who, for criminal purposes, unlawfully and without any assignment from the Government, assumes the command of a unit or division of the army or police, part of a …

A penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone having the right to command members of the armed forces or the ministry of interior or security bodies, who requests or instructs them to disobey the orders of th…

A penalty of life or temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on whoever instigates members of the armed forces or policemen or security bodies to disobey orders or to abandon the performance of their military, security o…

The death penalty or life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who forms a gang that attacks a group of residents, or resists with arms the public authority officers, in order to hinder the enforcement of the laws; an…