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Attorney-General Orders Pretrial Detention of Some Tweeters for Insulting a Female Citizen

HE Attorney-General Dr Issa bin Saad Al Juffali Al Nuaimi has ordered pretrial detention of some tweeters, on the background of insulting, the Twitter platform, a female citizen after achieving a sporting achievement.

Public Prosecution said, in a statement, that with reference to what was monitored on the social media platform (Twitter) as some of the tweeters insulted a female citizen after making an achievement for Qatar in one of the sports fields, pointing that such behavior would harm the public interest and constitute a criminal offense.

The statement added, that the users of those accounts were arrested and investigated, as HE the Attorney-General ordered their pretrial detention.

Source: Qatar News Agency