Crimes Insult, slander, and information threat (A comparative study)

Abstract

Abstract: Information crimes, including crimes against honor, consideration and information threats, are among the new crimes that the penal legislation has not yet kept pace with the criminalization of such crimes, such as the Iraqi legislation and the Qatari legislation, which have been studied in this research. A treatment of it in its traditional form, taking into account the failure of these legislations to address what was developed of these crimes by committing them by means of social media and the Internet, as well as the interpretation and measurement in criminal legal articles inconsistent with the principle of penal legitimacy, this matter made research on this subject a necessity It is imperative to remedy this legislative deficiency and to know the position of the comparative laws that were chosen as models for this study.