Tuesday, 7th August 2012

Iraq’s Information Crimes Law

Source: Human Rights Watch

From Press Release:

A new draft law on information technology crimes would restrict free speech in violation of international law and poses a severe threat to journalists, whistleblowers, and peaceful activists....The pending law includes vague provisions that would allow Iraqi authorities to harshly punish expression they decide constitutes a threat to governmental, social, or religious interests. The Council of Representatives, the parliament, should not approve the law without revising it to remove the rights restrictions.

The 16-page report, “Iraq’s Information Crimes Law: Badly Written Provisions and Draconian Punishments Violate Due Process and Free Speech,” is a legal analysis of the draft law. It finds that the draft law is part of a broad effort by authorities to suppress peaceful dissent by criminalizing legitimate information sharing and networking activities.

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• Crime (DocuTicker)
• Government and politics (DocuTicker)
• Human rights (DocuTicker)
• International (DocuTicker)
• Internet (DocuTicker)
• Legal and law enforcement (DocuTicker)
• Middle East (DocuTicker)
• Security (DocuTicker)
• Social and cultural issues (DocuTicker)
• Technology (DocuTicker)
• Telecommunications (DocuTicker)

Source:

• Human Rights Watch

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By Adrian Janes

Having begun his career in academic libraries, Adrian Janes is currently an Information Services Librarian with the London Borough of Havering.

In this role, he has particular responsibility for information from both the UK Government and the European Union. He wrote a detailed report on sources for the latter which was published by Free Pint Ltd. in 2007. He is also involved in training and publicising online reference resources and is a regular contributor to DocuTicker.

Adrian can be reached at adrian.janes@freepint.com

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