{"id":1913,"date":"2020-11-10T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2020-11-10T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:13:14","slug":"up-to-aed500k-25-years-in-jail-for-insulting-uae-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/1913-up-to-aed500k-25-years-in-jail-for-insulting-uae-flag.html","title":{"rendered":"Up to AED500K, 25 Years in Jail for Insulting UAE Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have warned of stiff penalties, including a jail term of up to 25 years and a fine of Dh500,000 for anyone caught misusing or insulting the UAE flag in any way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent Twitter update, the UAE Public Prosecution explained that whoever insults the UAE flag publicly or at any public place or a location opened for the public will be subject to the above penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Article (3) of the Federal Law No. 2 of 1971 on the Union Flag and its amendments states that anyone who drops, damages, or in any way insults the Union Flag will face a prison term of not less than 10 years and not more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The law also stipulates that in addition to a jail term, a minimum fine of Dh500,000 will also be imposed on the person found guilty of insulting the country&#8217;s flag.<\/p>\n<p>According to the public prosecutors, the same punishment will be given to anyone who insults a flag of any member emirates in the Union, the flag of any GCC country or the flag of any other country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have warned of stiff penalties, including a jail term of up to 25 years and a fine of Dh500,000 for anyone caught misusing or insulting the UAE flag in any way. In a recent Twitter update, the UAE Public Prosecution explained that whoever insults the UAE flag publicly or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/uae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}