Police Chief tells online users to stop insults

Dubai’s police chief warned in comments published on Thursday he would take stiff measures against persons using social networks to insult others or harm the UAE’s interests.

Lt General Dahi Khalfan Tamim said some writers on Twitter and Facebook had turned the two networks into a “platform to provoke rifts and incite sedition” instead of promoting cohesion.

Tamim was commenting on the recent arrest in Ras Al Khaimah of Saleh Al Dhufairi over his anti-UAE comments, saying that the man would be charged and tried according to the law.

“Every person must be responsible for his/her actions and statements and writing in social networks should not relieve any one from responsibility,” he told the Arabic language daily Emarat Alyoum.

He said he had received complaints from many Twitter and Facebook users about arbitrary measures against them and that he had asked them to come to him to tackle the problem.

“But no one came and this made me convinced that they are just making accusations without any evidence,” he said.

“We are totally against insulting any one or the UAE’s interests and systems…we will take strict legal measures against any one who violates the law, harm the UAE or provoke rifts and sedition.”

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